Hi,
Reading The Good Oil for free gets you plenty: the news, the debates, the front page and the start of most pieces. I'm glad you're here. But you're getting half the story, and it's usually the better half you're missing.
Take yesterday. The press gallery has been pushing Labour and National to cut a deal on overhangs, and I wrote the full case for why that's exactly the stitch-up MMP was built to stop. Paying readers got the whole argument. Free readers didn't.
Same with Real Good Oil. “Chippy Don’t Lose That Number” ran yesterday morning, and free readers got the start and not much else. Ten@10 lands every morning with ten stories. Free readers get the first one and then it stops. Quick Hits are for VIP members; the short political briefs and the cartoons are for paying readers.
The half you miss is the detail, the sources and the reasoning. It's the part that lets you argue the point at work or over the fence, instead of just knowing there was a row.
Twenty-five dollars a month, GST included, gets you all of it. With the campaign heating up every week, this is when it counts.
If you're going to read me anyway, read the whole thing.
Cam
