NJ.com is a sad shell of a reporting website that lost its way. It wants $10 a month to view click bait exclusives of random pizza joints that I would expect to see posted next to a quiz to figure out what Harry Potter character you are. Getting rid of the comments on the website was smart since the comments were so toxic but I wonder if they under estimated how many people that commented also shared content. Their aggressive, overpriced, subscription model, overzealous use of adds for non-subscription users and weaning amount of content has pretty much killed whatever usefulness they provided a year ago. It’s sad to see local journalism die. It’s even sadder to see it die into the the media equivalent of Sméagol hissing at is user base for its precious ad money.

I get they need to pay for local journalists but their content points to the ad dollars going to the executives who are hoping to hold on long enough to retire rather than anyone who is writing news articles. But I guess they used tableau once to look at the cops.