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>Please disable your ad blocker > >Advertising helps fund Times journalism. No I don't think so - uBlock Origin all the way. Internet advertising fuels th

>Please disable your ad blocker > >Advertising helps fund Times journalism. No I don't think so - uBlock Origin all the way. Internet advertising fuels the Facebook problem. The smaller we can make internet advertising, the smaller the Facebook problem becomes.

ForHackernews 8y ago
Pay for a subscription, then. Journalism isn't cheap.
- delhanty 8y ago
  I do pay for stuff on the internet. IMO the NY Times simply isn't good enough or original enough to be worth paying for though, so I choose not to subscribe to it. Also, I'm not very interested in being informed about the endless news cycle of daily events. It distracts focus and in the long run is mainly noise. Its main purpose seems to be to create jobs in the media for the oversupply of liberal arts graduates.
- setquk 8y ago
  Or just not bother reading the thousands of syndicated bits of crap and opinion pieces which is what "journalism" is mostly these days.
  - yostrovs 8y ago
    Thanks to the big tech companies and ad blockers.
- djohnston 8y ago
  journalism is actually extremely cheap, and is probably why the NYT finds itself in the unenviable position of playing second fiddle to new medias these days
  - PhasmaFelis 8y ago
    Cranking out clickbait is cheap. Journalism isn't.
    - djohnston 8y ago
      that's definitely true, i just think that even the "reputable" newspapers have fallen in line and while they do still execute detailed investigate journalism, they are also pumping out clickbait. the recent WaPo article on the child who died in CBP custody was quite disappointing.
- dqpb 8y ago
  Sounds like you've never paid for a subscription to the New York Times! The Ads don't go away. And eventually when you realize they're just another ad-serving, user-tracking, biased, hypocritical corporation and go to cancel the service the same way you signed up (online)... Surprise! You can't. You have to call them up and drudge through an hour of their sales bullshit trying to prevent you from cancelling. NYT is full of dark patterns.
  - bilbo0s 8y ago
    >The Ads don't go away... In fairness, maybe that's because journalism isn't cheap? I don't know? I'd need data from inside of NYTimes, or AFP, or Al Jazeera, or whatever to know for sure. But I suspect stuff like that costs a great deal of money. Subscriptions that would fully fund something like NYTimes, or WSJ, or Le Monde, or what have you would likely be unaffordable for the majority of information consumers. (Again, that's just my guess. I don't know?)

ForHackernews 8y ago

Pay for a subscription, then. Journalism isn't cheap.

delhanty 8y ago
I do pay for stuff on the internet. IMO the NY Times simply isn't good enough or original enough to be worth paying for though, so I choose not to subscribe to it. Also, I'm not very interested in being informed about the endless news cycle of daily events. It distracts focus and in the long run is mainly noise. Its main purpose seems to be to create jobs in the media for the oversupply of liberal arts graduates.
setquk 8y ago
Or just not bother reading the thousands of syndicated bits of crap and opinion pieces which is what "journalism" is mostly these days.
- yostrovs 8y ago
  Thanks to the big tech companies and ad blockers.
djohnston 8y ago
journalism is actually extremely cheap, and is probably why the NYT finds itself in the unenviable position of playing second fiddle to new medias these days
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago
  Cranking out clickbait is cheap. Journalism isn't.
  - djohnston 8y ago
    that's definitely true, i just think that even the "reputable" newspapers have fallen in line and while they do still execute detailed investigate journalism, they are also pumping out clickbait. the recent WaPo article on the child who died in CBP custody was quite disappointing.
dqpb 8y ago
Sounds like you've never paid for a subscription to the New York Times! The Ads don't go away. And eventually when you realize they're just another ad-serving, user-tracking, biased, hypocritical corporation and go to cancel the service the same way you signed up (online)... Surprise! You can't. You have to call them up and drudge through an hour of their sales bullshit trying to prevent you from cancelling. NYT is full of dark patterns.
- bilbo0s 8y ago
  >The Ads don't go away... In fairness, maybe that's because journalism isn't cheap? I don't know? I'd need data from inside of NYTimes, or AFP, or Al Jazeera, or whatever to know for sure. But I suspect stuff like that costs a great deal of money. Subscriptions that would fully fund something like NYTimes, or WSJ, or Le Monde, or what have you would likely be unaffordable for the majority of information consumers. (Again, that's just my guess. I don't know?)