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I feel like clicking the link and getting hit immediately with four tiers of subscription option from the Financial Times was a strong enough case in point that
by Jimajesty 4y ago
I feel like clicking the link and getting hit immediately with four tiers of subscription option from the Financial Times was a strong enough case in point that I scarcely needed to read the article itself.
- plonk 4y agoThe prices are awful too. It's clearly not targeted at random people wanting to stay informed.
- honkdaddy 4y agoI had to go check - $40/mo for a digital newspaper?! Surely this is aimed at a different demographic than mine, because I can’t imagine anyone I know paying that for news.
- umeshunni 4y agoI know many Finance/Wall St and (Financial/Management) academic types who pay for FT. It's high quality, financial news with a European perspective (vs the WSJ which is very US-centric). I assume they keep the prices high enough to support their operations without having to dilute their coverage for the mass market who will want their celebrity news, daily outrage fodder, censorship etc.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoProbably one of the few places that charges what things actually cost when you remove advertising from the equation.
- carabiner 4y agoNoam Chomsky called the FT "the only newspaper that tells the truth."
- MichaelZuo 4y agoThey've had a noticeable increase in almost-clickbait titles in the last few years. So it's not like they've remained unaffected by the decline in news media.
- carabiner 4y agoMaybe they've always been there, but it just took you a few years to notice them. By how often you hear this sentiment (X newspaper used to be better, more thoughtful and analytical), you'd expect news articles written a few decades ago to read like dissertations. Except they all read about the same, newsy and for a general audience. My theory is it takes a few years to notice the crap, but the crap was there all the time.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoFT articles from 20 years ago are readily available online... You can see for yourself if there's been a change in writing quality.
- tinsmith 4y agoI clicked because I thought it was Fortean Times. Oh well.
- jerojero 4y agoBypass paywalls clean is a very good extension to get rid of these subscription annoyances, although, i guess it is a form of piracy.