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Apple News+ Offering Three-Month Free Trial in U.S. and Canada This Weekend Only
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I had to turn off the Apple News widget because it repeatedly recommended news from ”channels“ that I blocked. If they can’t get that simple part right, why would I pay them for my news?
And what’s the difference between browsing recipes on Pinterest or Southern Living? At least the SL ones are tested by people that know something instead of butter free cookies, just leave out the butter!
Gotta push back on these generalizations a bit. To say that “hard news” doesn’t exist anymore is absurd.
You can’t square journalism with ad-driven TV entertainment. Most commentators at FOX are exactly that — they don’t even consider themselves journalists. CNN is driven by news cycle ad revenue and responding to the brilliant money-minting FOX outrage generator.
In fact, the state of journalism — despite despotic attacks on the freedom of the press and their integrity and well being (Kashoggi much?) across the globe — is stronger than ever. There are any number of quality outlets conducting deep journalism. Not hard to find. Don’t believe what the heads tell you about journalism being dead. That’s a lie.
Regardless, as others have pointed out, a majority of the content in Apple News is niche entertainment. It’s terribly misbranded.
They are doing that for a reason: this is how subscriptions work. But here is cool to think about strange plots.
Where is this hard journalism hiding at? Lol. Journalists have no one to blame but themselves. The first time a blogger got confused with being a journalist should have scared them silly.
Journalists should be certified. Peer reviewed. Hold themselves to a higher standard. And that standard should be easily identified when reading an article. Just as cpas are. Cpa’s don’t do this for kicks. Having the public’s trust is vital.
Just as opinion or commentators should clearly identify themselves as entertainment as that makes up the bulk of cnn, Fox, etc.
And that is exactly what makes up at least 95% of both TV and print of the so-called media. It's all opinion. I myself began using the term "Infotainment" in 2007 before people began using it to describe todays mainstream media. Even when I watch Skynews, their daily Press Preview is also made of up individuals who are putting forth THEIR opinion from the side they support.
I rarely hear or read an individual with the exception of Chris Hedges or Paul Craig Roberts who tries not to take a left or right issue. In fact Paul Craig Roberts has said on many occasions that he gets hatred from both sides of the aisle.
I signed up for the trial, and there are lots of magazines I like, but I got the same ones free from my library using their digital app.
I thought the things were supposed to be enhanced for the iPad, but its just changing from page to page and no real extra / enhanced content.
I would keep it maybe for $2.99 a month but not $9.99 a month. I will be canceling before my 3 month trial is up.
I thought the things were supposed to be enhanced for the iPad, but its just changing from page to page and no real extra / enhanced content.
I would keep it maybe for $2.99 a month but not $9.99 a month. I will be canceling before my 3 month trial is up.
Yup, they should allow RSS and more countries to let people use the app in the first place
Ok, so I signed up for the free three months. The ‘news’ component is really disappointing... surprising amounts of click-bait stories, entertainment news and other superficial nonsense.
There are still a few serious newspapers that do incredibly in-depth investigative journalism, but that kind of reporting costs a lot of money. You also have to keep in mind that you may not like the news they provide, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. For example, if you dislike the New York Times (the journalism part, not the opinion sections) then you might have to reconcile yourself to the fact that you don't like the reality they're reporting on.
William Randolph Hurst ( “You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.") and the other turn of the century media barons could have given any of today's media companies, from Fox to The Daily Koz, lessons in bias and reader manipulation. Walter Cronkite declared, on the air, that Vietnam was unwinnable.
The notion that news coverage used to be "just the facts, ma'am" is quaint.
There's no such thing as not having a political opinion nor "just reporting the facts". Everyone believes their own position is "neutral" and that it is everyone else that is biased. If you have the same world view as that person then you'll also consider them neutral but don't mistake that for lack of bias.
I signed up for Apple News+ on Cyber Monday and the link on Apple's website specifically mentioned the 3 month trial but when I received my confirmation email, it was only limited to 1 month :-( Called Apple and both the first line representative and her supervisor didn't even *know* about the promotion. I had to show them this article for them to believe me. The supervisor then argued that "this weekend" doesn't include Monday. I said: "hey, I don't want any special privileges, but if others had signed up for this offer, then I'd like to get it too." She made it sound like Apple didn't have too many signups for that weekend anyway.
My takeaway is that whoever was a big news junkie already signed up when this was first announced and sign-ups really have fallen off a cliff. I tried to ask them to reset my account and cancel my subscription so that if they had future such offers, I would still be able to sign up, but they were real strict about it and said "sorry we can't do that, you already began your free trial."
A little disappointed that Apple would offer product discounts up until Cyber Monday (which I'm sure a lot of people took advantage of) but were so stingy and specific about the definition of "weekend" when offering trials of a product that they *ought* to be promoting further...
My takeaway is that whoever was a big news junkie already signed up when this was first announced and sign-ups really have fallen off a cliff. I tried to ask them to reset my account and cancel my subscription so that if they had future such offers, I would still be able to sign up, but they were real strict about it and said "sorry we can't do that, you already began your free trial."
A little disappointed that Apple would offer product discounts up until Cyber Monday (which I'm sure a lot of people took advantage of) but were so stingy and specific about the definition of "weekend" when offering trials of a product that they *ought* to be promoting further...