Comments on: Farewell, RCR http://www.phonenews.com/blog/farewell-rcr-471.html The blog of PhoneNews.com and its tireless consumer advocates. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:10:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dave http://www.phonenews.com/blog/farewell-rcr-471.html/comment-page-1#comment-4840 Dave Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:34:42 +0000 http://www.phonenews.com/blog/?p=471#comment-4840 I wish everybody at RCR News the best of luck in finding replacement employment. Now is not a good time to be unemployed. However, RCR spent the last few years in a steady decline from "respectable trade publication" to "tabloid". When it wasn't outright broken, their website randomly required registration (or payment) just to read articles. When I suggested to them that this may not be the best business model for a website, their response was that "most of the 'free' (wireless) news services clip news from us, without paying our reporters". But hey, what do I know? I wish everybody at RCR News the best of luck in finding replacement employment. Now is not a good time to be unemployed. However, RCR spent the last few years in a steady decline from “respectable trade publication” to “tabloid”. When it wasn’t outright broken, their website randomly required registration (or payment) just to read articles. When I suggested to them that this may not be the best business model for a website, their response was that “most of the ‘free’ (wireless) news services clip news from us, without paying our reporters”.

But hey, what do I know?

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