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I happily pay for lots of services, but I just don't think many of these publishers are worth paying for. I'm pretty tired of shitty clickbait headlines, and s

I happily pay for lots of services, but I just don't think many of these publishers are worth paying for. I'm pretty tired of shitty clickbait headlines, and stories which cherry-pick a handful of twitter posts to make it seem like there's outrage over something. Even worse, it seems like most publishers are dead set of trying to feed you their agenda. Why would I pay for misleading or intellectually dishonest articles?

baldfat 9y ago
These news paid sources are usually only valuable for local content. My local news paper' only redeeming value is it is local but it isn't $4 a week valuable.
- TheCowboy 9y ago
  I agree that $4*52 is expensive, but it could cost less if more people were subscribing. Unfortunately, even at a more reasonable price per month or week, I think papers wouldn't see a surge in subscribers in the current environment. Short-term, I think people undervalue the value of local news. There are often a lot of info holes when it comes to local government and politics. I wonder if this has adverse affects that lead to less involvement in local politics except when a NIMBY issue appears, which doesn't seem like good governance. Local news coverage, with the exception of major cities, tends to be sparse and often non-existent. Even for some major areas there can be a lot of holes in coverage. This problem makes itself apparent to me when come election day I try to look up all of the candidates, and find no info for many of them that isn't from their own website (if it even exists).
  - baldfat 9y ago
    It is going to bot created I am afraid to say. My city has good local coverage, a wee bit biased but it is local people in a School Board meetings and City Meetings at least. Google is funding the creation of software that writes local news stories https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/08/google-is-funding-the-creation-of-software-that-writes-local-news-stories/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/08/google-is-funding-the-crea...
QAPereo 9y ago
Agreed... a paywall just means that the minimal interest I had drops to 0.

baldfat 9y ago

These news paid sources are usually only valuable for local content. My local news paper' only redeeming value is it is local but it isn't $4 a week valuable.

TheCowboy 9y ago
I agree that $4*52 is expensive, but it could cost less if more people were subscribing. Unfortunately, even at a more reasonable price per month or week, I think papers wouldn't see a surge in subscribers in the current environment. Short-term, I think people undervalue the value of local news. There are often a lot of info holes when it comes to local government and politics. I wonder if this has adverse affects that lead to less involvement in local politics except when a NIMBY issue appears, which doesn't seem like good governance. Local news coverage, with the exception of major cities, tends to be sparse and often non-existent. Even for some major areas there can be a lot of holes in coverage. This problem makes itself apparent to me when come election day I try to look up all of the candidates, and find no info for many of them that isn't from their own website (if it even exists).
- baldfat 9y ago
  It is going to bot created I am afraid to say. My city has good local coverage, a wee bit biased but it is local people in a School Board meetings and City Meetings at least. Google is funding the creation of software that writes local news stories https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/08/google-is-funding-the-creation-of-software-that-writes-local-news-stories/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/08/google-is-funding-the-crea...

QAPereo 9y ago

Agreed... a paywall just means that the minimal interest I had drops to 0.