Phil Hay

HB you say it like it's a right to get this stuff for free. Most media publications are in massive debt because they can't turn readers into profit. People used to buy papers now everyone just reads them online for free.

Future of journalism is behind a pay wall as that's the only way it can continue to exist. Otherwise we are left with clickbait articles that are based on nothing just trying to get as much advertising as possible, which is increasingly what local papers have been doing

They make enough from advertising to survive that will do them.

I don't think a lot of these guys are worth reading when it's free so i'm not going to pay and the ones that are the reason i hope it fails so we can go back to reading their input.

Plenty rent-a-gobs waiting to take their places.

Am not knocking phil hay because you’ve got to follow the money sometime

But great point about YEP website, utter disgrace. Must of been a factor for him too

And some great points been made by posters, made me think differently to it

Not a world of difference between those people who think they have a right to access other people's writing for free (their work and their intellectual property) and those who think they have a right to access Leeds games via whatever platform for free in my mind.

I couldn't believe looking at a couple of links on here, just changed from one to the next to the and Wtf!..

There's one that said "watch Boris Johnson's Plane leaving Leeds Bradford!.

What a waste off space!..

My youngest daughter's boyfriend is a sports journalist and I've just asked him what his thoughts are. I'm afraid I'm a bit of a hypocrite...., I'm signing up now. Apparently its the dog's thingies...….

We werent previously getting this for free.

The quality and detail of the article is far more advanced.

comment by Yorkie_116 (U2965)
posted 17 minutes ago
We werent previously getting this for free.

The quality and detail of the article is far more advanced.
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Agree, Yorkie, but only because the other writers at the YEP are awful. Urquhart, Sobot, Prutton and the new guys cannot articulate or develop a single original thought between them. Phil is first and foremost an investigative journalist who writes about football. You don't have to like his opinions to recognise that his sources are impeccable, and his thinking is razor sharp. I'm going to have a look at this site, for sure.

Just signed up for the free trial. It's brilliant. You set up your preferences so you only read stuff you are interested in. Great writing, and what a relief not to have advertising all over the place. US $48 for a year is less than the cost of parking ticket where I live. I know which I'd prefer.