[anexprogrammer]

I'd call it outright dishonest. Tell me quite plainly the price I'll pay or I'll treat you as a scammer. Vaguely telling me the special offer price and completely avoiding the true price is a scam like pattern.

You're right on pricing though. Newspapers need to stop trying to charge nearly the same as a print subscription. Almost no one is going to pay that these days - we don't expect to get all our news from one or two sources now.

I'd love to see a respected news site try a penny under $1/£1 a month sub just to see how the numbers land. I'd wouldn't be at all surprised to see enough subscriber growth that they make more notwithstanding traffic growth. It has to be better than advert supported rates.

I'd pay that, without second thought. I'd be happy paying that across the twenty or so news sites that make up regular reading for me.