I think that we are now in the age of technology. Everyone has some way to get the news other than a newspaper. To charge for looking at an online newspaper would make sense because making a newspaper is not free and they need money to fund the resources they use to get a good story.

The Washington Post is subsidized by Kaplan not "The Capitol."

I think you mean "charge" not "change."

Oops.... I hit "Send" too soon.

I don't want to imagine a world without great news sources such as The New York Times who not only report news but investigate and reveal things that we might otherwise never see the light of day. Obviously that requires money, and
i am more than willing to pay. I do not, however, subscribe to the idea that online content should cost as much as print does, and believe that there's more money to be made by news organizations receiving a nominal fee, say $1 @ month, from millions of subscribers than they could expect to get from those willing to pay amounts closer to full print price.