Paying providers directly either means micropayments or committing to reading enough of that specific news source to get a non-micropayment-sized amount of valu

Paying providers directly either means micropayments or committing to reading enough of that specific news source to get a non-micropayment-sized amount of value from it. No one has really cracked micropayments in a way that has caught on, yet, and the model of depending on a single source for a majority of news has gone the way of print newspapers. Bloomberg, NYT, WashPo, the Economist, and other such places need to figure out how to provide value commensurate with the money they charge, or else figure out how to exist in a world where one of "their" readers still visits dozens or hundreds of other such outlets a month. > Try 3 months for -$105- $6. Cancel anytime. The 105 is just a joke, and even $2 a month is very high, considering there'd be similar payments to 20+ other such outlets.