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Written media hasn’t figured it out yet. Though NYTimes is trying to get there with their recent acquisitions. I would pay 10-15 bucks a month to access a lot o
by etempleton 5y ago
Written media hasn’t figured it out yet. Though NYTimes is trying to get there with their recent acquisitions. I would pay 10-15 bucks a month to access a lot of quality written content, but print charges more and is more limited in the amount of content you receive. And it feels like you should have access to everything when you are on the internet. Hitting a paywall when trying to read a 500 word article is a bad feeling.
- mschuster91 5y agoThe problem is, how to actually fund decent journalism? Quality journalism costs money, and personally I pay about 40€ in total a month for a selection of quality media. Crap journalism - and I'm not just talking about clickbait of the Buzzfeed style, but especially right-wing-leaning rags - in contrast are funded by dark or enemy government money, so they can publish their crap without needing paywalls... which leads to people drifting towards these for getting their news. Austria has experimented with a different system, in contrast: there, the government pays a ton of money in advertising, so newspapers are essentially free - but at the cost of corruption like the scandal that (thankfully) caused the demise of the former Chancellor Kurz.