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Many people want to pay for journalism, e.g. have an Economist subscription. Not many people want to pay for badly informed opinions dressed up as journalism w
by _Codemonkeyism 8y ago
Many people want to pay for journalism, e.g. have an Economist subscription.
Not many people want to pay for badly informed opinions dressed up as journalism with cut & paste from other sites and Reuters.
Take the Economist vs. most other publications. An usual Economist article has 20 facts about the issue (e.g. elections in South Sudan) and at the end sometimes an opinion (notwithstanding the general thinking of the Economist). Opinion pieces are easily spotted ("Charlemagne"). Others take 20 facts and write 20 articles and add 10 opinions to each of them to get out more content.