I see paywalls as win-win deal. The abundance cliché tells us that more news outlets reaching more readers is always a good thing. In reality though for the n

I see paywalls as win-win deal. The abundance cliché tells us that more news outlets reaching more readers is always a good thing. In reality though for the news producers, what's the point of reaching many millions if you become a slave of advertisements and of the competition for people's attention? And from our perspective as readers, we should drop the abundance mentality and understands our news consumption much like we understand our food consumption. There is the equivalent to consuming too much food and to consuming unhealthy food. Consuming more don't make us more informed. As Steven Pinker says, even when it's honest and good, "News is a misleading way to understand the world". It's all about dramatic events that just happened and slow but powerful and meaningful evolutions naturally take the backseat. But they do make us meaner, angrier, more pessimistic. I prefer to choose to consume less news, but to really enjoy the ones that I do consume. And "I am ready to pay for it?" is a very good assesment of wether that's the case. https://www.vox.com/2016/8/16/12486586/2016-worst-year-ever-violence-trump-terrorism https://www.vox.com/2016/8/16/12486586/2016-worst-year-ever-...