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This was probably (wrongly) downvoted because it's hitting too close to home. Nearly every HN post with a paywall has comments boycotting or denouncing said pa
by costcopizza 9y ago
This was probably (wrongly) downvoted because it's hitting too close to home.
Nearly every HN post with a paywall has comments boycotting or denouncing said paywall, how else do you expect them to survive?
- x0x0 9y agoI expect people who want robust investigations of what half trillion dollar companies are doing to pay for news, not expect reporters to devote say 1/4 of a year to an investigation at a cost of probably $100k+ (their salary, expenses, editors, travel, etc) in exchange for a couple hundred thousand pageviews with $0.1cpm ads. Though spending $100k to make $50 is actually supported by the valley =P ... but it doesn't lead to a robust public press.
- danielam 9y agoIt's not that simple. The amount of money it takes to run a newspaper exceeds the amount it could easily charge readers, at least in the conventional way in which newspapers have done. This has always been the case (a good read is Hillaire Belloc's "The Free Press").