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To be honest I value mainstream online news at $0. As I've said before, I often don't even believe it's worth accepting cookies to read an article, and will clo
by version_five 5y ago
To be honest I value mainstream online news at $0. As I've said before, I often don't even believe it's worth accepting cookies to read an article, and will close the browser when asked. There are occasionally interesting pieces of analysis here and there, but rarely from major news sources.
I would potentially pay for good news aggregation / curation, and for real analysis / opinion that is interesting, not the pablum that comes out of mainstream news. The only real advantage news outlets like NYT have are that you can know what other people are talking about, overall the analysis is far to bland (or an best maybe intentionally ideological to try and appear controversial) to be worth anything.
- qnsi 5y agoso you never click on those news articles here? I am also thinking about not news per se but opinion pieces, lifestyle, technology articles?
- version_five 5y agoI click on all that stuff, but I don't value it in the sense that if I have to give something up for it, I just won't bother. That valuation is based on the relative abundance of information that's available, but that's what it is. I value an internet connection, a browser, a computer with a gui (though barely the gui part), etc, but not the incremental experience of clicking on a particular news (et al) link