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Apple News+ is trying to build that, one subscription for $10/month. This is the current list of who they include: https://www.apple.com/apple-news/publications

Apple News+ is trying to build that, one subscription for $10/month. This is the current list of who they include: https://www.apple.com/apple-news/publications/ https://www.apple.com/apple-news/publications/ It's pretty decent imo depending on where you live and what you want to read. It includes some solid newspapers like the LA Times, SF Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, Globe & Mail, Sacramento Bee, WSJ, etc. Plus some news-oriented magazines like the New Yorker and Atlantic. It's conspicuously missing a few of the top names though, who probably correctly think they can do better maintaining their own subscriber bases and don't want to be commodified in a bundle (NYT, WaPo, The Economist, Financial Times).

baggy_trough 5y ago
The content menu is decent. Unfortunately the UI for Apple News+ is bad enough to make the service a no-go.
rchaud 5y ago
With Apple doing the bundling, the content will only be available in the Apple News app, which is Mac and iOS only. Even worse, the Mac app does not let you print or even select text. It's taking web content and making it as un-web like as it can. I can't even share the article to Pocket! I subscribe to the NYT and Globe & Mail. I print articles I want to read to PDF (or save as a SingleHTML file) and have them auto-synced to my tablet. This gives me a permanent copy of the article that supports annotation. I'm never going to go the bundling route.
eddyg 5y ago
Came here to say Apple News+ has been quite excellent. If you get to a paywalled WSJ article on the web, you can often use the “share” icon to “Open in Apple News” and read it just fine.
throwawaysea 5y ago
That list of Apple's partner publications does reflect a bias though. For example the news/politics section contains more lean-left and left biased sources from All Sides (https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings) than it does lean-right and right-biased sources. I am guessing a number of right-biased sources either aren't welcome on Apple's platform or don't feel comfortable partnering with them. Given that Apple's own content policies implement a progressive bias (for example on trans issues), and since they have a long history of censorship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Apple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Apple), I am not sure how people can trust such a service to fairly represent all views or provide a diversity of viewpoints. And this is the exact problem with this sort of bundle - it centralizes something that is better handled in a decentralized way, and the platform owner then gains power that they can abuse. The GP comment mentioned Spotify, and they suffer from the same issue. They entered the podcast market, acquired Joe Rogan's show as an exclusive, and then immediately proceeded to censor vast swaths of content based on their employees' ideological biases (https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/04/06/joe-rogan-spotify-removing-shows/ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/04/06/joe-rogan-spotif...).

baggy_trough 5y ago

The content menu is decent. Unfortunately the UI for Apple News+ is bad enough to make the service a no-go.

rchaud 5y ago

With Apple doing the bundling, the content will only be available in the Apple News app, which is Mac and iOS only. Even worse, the Mac app does not let you print or even select text. It's taking web content and making it as un-web like as it can. I can't even share the article to Pocket! I subscribe to the NYT and Globe & Mail. I print articles I want to read to PDF (or save as a SingleHTML file) and have them auto-synced to my tablet. This gives me a permanent copy of the article that supports annotation. I'm never going to go the bundling route.

eddyg 5y ago

Came here to say Apple News+ has been quite excellent. If you get to a paywalled WSJ article on the web, you can often use the “share” icon to “Open in Apple News” and read it just fine.

throwawaysea 5y ago

That list of Apple's partner publications does reflect a bias though. For example the news/politics section contains more lean-left and left biased sources from All Sides (https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings) than it does lean-right and right-biased sources. I am guessing a number of right-biased sources either aren't welcome on Apple's platform or don't feel comfortable partnering with them. Given that Apple's own content policies implement a progressive bias (for example on trans issues), and since they have a long history of censorship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Apple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Apple), I am not sure how people can trust such a service to fairly represent all views or provide a diversity of viewpoints. And this is the exact problem with this sort of bundle - it centralizes something that is better handled in a decentralized way, and the platform owner then gains power that they can abuse. The GP comment mentioned Spotify, and they suffer from the same issue. They entered the podcast market, acquired Joe Rogan's show as an exclusive, and then immediately proceeded to censor vast swaths of content based on their employees' ideological biases (https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/04/06/joe-rogan-spotify-removing-shows/ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/04/06/joe-rogan-spotif...).