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News has always been funded with advertising the cost of the newspaper was just a nice bonus. I pay for it by giving you my eye balls. Journalists just got slop

• veddox 8y ago
  Hm, I thought the claim that newspapers are funded by advertising was wrong, but apparently you're right after all - at least historically: - https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2020-report/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2020-report/index.html - https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_events/how-will-journalism-survive-internet-age/varian.pdf https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_eve... However, in the last few years, a switch to a greater subscription income has taken place (see first link above, also here: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/01/circulation-and-revenue-fall-for-newspaper-industry/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/01/circulation-...).