I have a solution: bundle. I will never pay the NYTimes, WSJ ot Washington Post for a digital subscription. I don't read these things intentionally; i read them

I have a solution: bundle. I will never pay the NYTimes, WSJ ot Washington Post for a digital subscription. I don't read these things intentionally; i read them because someone links me to them. To then be told i need to pay to read just makes me turn away in disgust, because my experience of the internet, fast, fluid, has suddenly been interrupted. Shall i go get my credit card, fill in some forms, remember a login etc. just to read some shitty link? Fuck no. This much is obvious and the paywall model these people are using is obviously terrible as a result. It will never work because a website is not the same as a print newspaper. Case in point: i have a subscription to several print newspapers (the FT and the Economist). But i don't read either online, even though i could, because the experience is too painful. I am not going to dig around for separate credentials for each online publication i want to read. The solution is obvious, and has already been employed to great effect by streaming media companies. A media bundle company offers access to 50 or 60 news sites. You get one login; you pay $8 a month or thereabouts. In return you can read the Washington Post, WSJ etc., and each media company gets a payout based on impressions (or better yet, as a share of total consumption, e.g. if i read 2 WSJ and 10 ny times, WSJ gets $6 * 2/12 and NYT gets $6 * 10/12. This gives me what i want: freedom to browse without having to negotiate each link i click. It gives the media companies a revenue stream from satisfied readers. The media pass company gets a fee for a valuable service. Win win win. All that is required is for someone (hint, hint, HN) to successfully negotiate a content agreement for their media pass with a few big players. If you got WSJ, WP, NYT to sign up that would probably make this fly.