This won’t work. It’s fantastically easy for a low-quality site to summarise paywalled news articles (and it happens already). Unfortunately newspapers made a

This won’t work. It’s fantastically easy for a low-quality site to summarise paywalled news articles (and it happens already). Unfortunately newspapers made a massive mistake giving their news away for free in the early 00s. That set a precedent that has been impossible to reverse for all but a few large well-funded papers. Local journalism has practically evaporated. It wasn’t really because Facebook stole the news. It was because Facebook stole their ad revenue, and the classified pages (a major revenue source for local journalism) have been swallowed by Craigslist and others. Edit: the decade