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It’s also a little ahistorical. Roll back the clock to the 1990’s, and NYT + your local paper + any magazines weren’t exactly cheap. In those times, the “free”
by coffeefirst 6y ago
It’s also a little ahistorical. Roll back the clock to the 1990’s, and NYT + your local paper + any magazines weren’t exactly cheap.
In those times, the “free” options were the same as they are today: broadcast news, NPR or the BBC.
It’s definitely a problem that the less engaged audience moved from their local news anchor to Facebook, but I can’t make that about paywalls.
- toyg 6y ago> In those times, the “free” options were the same as they are today It was easier to circulate some of that paper though. In Europe, cafes will typically buy a bunch of newspapers for their members and leave them free to read on their premises; political parties would do the same or even staple them to bulletin-boards on the street. Same for libraries. I expect the US had some equivalent to that model. The digital divide makes it increasingly harder to circulate content in that manner.