>Writers need paid... The thing is that so little of what you read in various online news sources was actually "written" by reporters in the classical sense of

>Writers need paid... The thing is that so little of what you read in various online news sources was actually "written" by reporters in the classical sense of the man in the beige raincoat with a "Press" ticket in his hat-band, frntically scribbling shorthand in a notebook, before phoning in his story. The vast, vast majority of news articles concerning national and international news are pretty much copy/pasted from news agencies like Reuters [0] or AP [1] [0] https://www.reuters.com/ https://www.reuters.com/ [1] https://www.ap.org/en/ https://www.ap.org/en/ So, yes, writers deserve to get paid. And, through news agency licensing fees, the original writers of such articles are. But how much does the person who bascially copy/pastes that into another site deserve to get paid? Ironically, where the stereotype reporter, actually writing original content [that I portrayed above] does still exist, it tends to be in very local news gathering where the likes of a news agency has no interest. For example; your local village flower show, or the traffic congestion on the high street. And yet those very local news outlets are almost exclusively non-paywalled.