Mrzzy,

From the Washington Post Site:

>Search Fees

> You can search The Washington Post archives for free, but >a fee will be charged to see the full text of any article >the past 14 days are available at no cost on our main >>>>>>search page.

>Articles dating back to January 1977 are available for >>>>searching.The following prices will be charged to read the >full text of stories: $2.95 per article on weekdays, 6 >>>>a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern Time $1.50 per article all other >>times >You must set up an account to access the full text of articles.

So yes, the WashPost does make you pay-- I had a big go around with them about the outrageous fees that they (and, now, almost all of the other papers) charge, because I was working on a research project that required a lot of old news stories. You can't even read them without paying the fee, so you don't know whether the article has the information that you need without paying for it first--I could actually buy the back issues from them for a lot less, but then there is a lot of extraneous newsprint to deal with--

It wasn't possible to finish the project because I just couldn't afford the fees--

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