The whole "competing for clicks" model seems to lead inescapably to a race to the bottom. I currently subscribe to the Boston Globe, but 90% of the articles I

The whole "competing for clicks" model seems to lead inescapably to a race to the bottom. I currently subscribe to the Boston Globe, but 90% of the articles I read from them is the sports section, but (I hope) less than 90% of my money is spent covering the Red Sox and Patriots. If it was pay by the article the incentives would be terrible. Some systems need not to be optimized to chase metrics, they need slack and produce value that is hard to measure. This is the kind of problem that the technology and business worlds have been uniquely incapable of solving.