News organizations work because the interests of the many finance a broad array of articles. Micropayments for articles would disrupt and distort the motives of

News organizations work because the interests of the many finance a broad array of articles. Micropayments for articles would disrupt and distort the motives of unbiased news. There would emerge a hierarchy of articles chasing clicks and editors that favored certain writers with privileged access to click-generating traffic. underperforming articles would cease, and eventually, we'd get CNN. Joking aside, the newspaper model finances diversity of content. Per article payments finance creating lowest common denominator drivel.