IraqSlogger – not a cheap subscription

So I have IraqSlogger on the list of sites that I visit every day or two. It’s a long list, and the Slogger is good for a very quick scan of the news from Iraq, but it has not been that useful.

Well – they’ve just announced that they are gong fully subscription-only from Sept 1. Fair enough – they have been struggling to get ads as the topic is pretty tough to advertise on.

But the price. The price. They want a staggering $59.95 PER MONTH. That’s the discounted rate, a saving of $20 from the $79.95 per month list price. Suffice to say they’ll be well off my list.

I guess they have realised or decided that mostly professional journalists are visiting, and they think that what they are offering is worth the investment by editors. All I can say is that it is sad to see a resource like this disapear, especially at a time whne Iraq news is so passe.