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Thanks for taking the time to answer. Yet I fail to see how this answers to my question (I must be dumb): "why paying for unimportant news?" (edit: I don't ge

Thanks for taking the time to answer. Yet I fail to see how this answers to my question (I must be dumb): "why paying for unimportant news?" (edit: I don't get the policy from "Le monde" either. For example I see some important news which are paywalled, while other important news are free. Same for unimportant news. It seems the categorization is quite done at random (at least in what I read today). If you take "Les echos" it's clearer, important news are paywalled, which I find more logical as a business model.)

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I won't speak for Le Monde's commercial side, but think the concept is that a subscriber considers themselves as paying for all the news; accepts any "freeriding" on important news as a cost of generating the public good of an informed society; and leaves it to NARGs (should any exist) to account for the value proposition differently.