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It's responsible to pay for good journalism.
by ProAm 6y ago
It's responsible to pay for good journalism.
- ekianjo 6y agoHow can you judge it's good if you can't read more than 5 lines?
- josefresco 6y agoTrust is determined by evaluating the institution. You don't get to ask for a partial refund of your newspaper subscription because you disliked one article.
- freeopinion 6y agoDo you make the same argument for movies? books? cars?
- godelzilla 6y agoIt's the WSJ though.
- pinkfoot 6y agoSure, they just don't want my currency.
- Lendal 6y agoYes, but is it responsible to pay for _all_ good journalism? You'd go bankrupt.
- dang 6y agoPaywall complaints, which this is a variant of, are off topic here. They're always the same, which means they just add noise. HN is a site for diffs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20paywalls&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- ProAm 6y agoThat is very fair, but why allow piracy with paywall workarounds? Are those considered off topic or illegal? It is a gray area, but people asking for a paywall workaround also seems OT in comments? I only ask because I think its important to the world to have good journalism because it helps to keep the other side of the fence (business and politics) accountable. And I believe that bypassing paywalls hurts that balance of powers.
- dang 6y agoBecause HN would be much worse off without NYT, Economist, WSJ, and so on. These publications are well aware of their paywall design and what can or can't be done to work around them. If they wanted hardwalls they would have them. Some publications do, and those are off limits here (edit: unless they're willing to unlock the article for HN readers, which The Information, for example, does occasionally). The situation is of course a mess, but until the publication business sorts itself out the way the music business eventually did, this is what we're left with. It sucks, but I don't know of any alternative that wouldn't suck worse. The difference between comments asking for paywall workarounds and comments complaining about paywalls is that the former gives people new things to read (albeit via a layer of indirection) while the latter just repeats something we've all read ad nauseum. It isn't a question of agreeing or disagreeing, but of avoiding repetition. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20curiosity%20repetition&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...