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At the same time, having to subscribe to specific periodical keeps me from doing it all. I see the these subscribe pop-ups every time I visit a newspaper, at le
by ako 4y ago
At the same time, having to subscribe to specific periodical keeps me from doing it all. I see the these subscribe pop-ups every time I visit a newspaper, at least 5 different newspapers per day. It is just not affordable to have 5 subscriptions, so I end up subscribing to none.
- Ma8ee 4y agoI pay something like €5 to The Guardian and $2 to NYT (which I read very occasionally) every months. And then another €15 to a Swedish newspaper. That is very cheap to support independent journalism.
- bentlegen 4y agoWow, $2 is a good deal. I feel I paid that little to start, but now NYT charges me $20 CAD a month. I regularly debate whether it’s worth it or not, and it definitely stops me from subscribing to other publications.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoGood luck canceling that subscription.
- Ma8ee 4y agoThey have made it easier. It used to be that you had to call, but now you can do it on the web.
- rchaud 4y agoPaypal has a one-click cancel option for any recurring payment.
- drtz 4y agoThis really isn't a big deal if you use credit card policy to your advantage. When I canceled a subscription to a local paper (Dallas Morning News), their policy said I had to call to cancel. Instead, I sent an email informing them I was rescinding authorization to charge my credit card. They initially responded stating that I had to call to cancel my subscription. One more email reminding them that charging my card without authorization would be credit card fraud turned out to be enough to have the phone call requirement dropped.
- Ma8ee 4y agoThey always increase the price after a year, and I go through the cancelling forms in their website until they offer me the lower price again. I guess that they know how little I actually use the subscription, so it’s no point in trying to get more money from me.
- favaq 4y agoI hope your calling The Guardian and especially the CIA... I mean the NYT "independent journalism" is an elaborate joke.
- Ma8ee 4y agoWhy do you think so?
- chiefalchemist 4y agoNot the original commentor. As a longer time and now former NYT reader, it has definitely fallen off. It's abandoned balance and objectivity for trite left-leaning talking points. The breakup came when I realized I could not longer trust it to inform me to the depth and breadth I needed. At this point, it's an average news publication - notice I didn't say journalism - riding on the fumes of its history. It's not bad. But every since the internet its become more and more generic.
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y agoBecause publications like the NYT depend on access for their "journalism" [0]. Independent/investigative journalism requires an adversarial relationship to power, and looks more like [1]. In past decades, the establishment was occasionally forced to grapple with this [2] [3] but at this point the public discussion is so captured, it's no longer necessary. Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent lays it out in depth. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/correspondence-collusion-new-york-times-cia https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/corres... [1] https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/releases/ https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/releases/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee [3] https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/27/archives/cia-established-many-links-to-journalists-in-us-and-abroad-cias.html https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/27/archives/cia-established-...
- chimprich 4y agoThe Guardian is one of the best examples of independent journalism. It's owned by the Scott Trust. It was set up by the original owner in the 30s to ensure editorial independence. People do sometimes confuse "editorial independence" with "taking an editorial line I personally disagree with", however.
- gibolt 4y agoHaving the option to do either seems like the better approach for a consumer. Worded differently, removing one of two options is worse for the consumer.
- fastball 4y agoBut that's not the current reality, as basically no newspapers are on Kindle Unlimited.
- AdamN 4y agoOr even worse is Apple News where it's pieces of major newspapers like the WSJ and then dumbed down newspapers like USA Today and nothing of the caliber of Financial Times. What I want is an app/site that has all the news, strong blocklists so I can get rid of junk (USA Today), stuff I'm just not interested in (Wrestling Today if such a thing exists), and get more stuff that I didn't know existed (Upper Siberian Mining Monthly :-))!
- janfoeh 4y agohttps://www.pressreader.com https://www.pressreader.com might be worth a look. I only have limited access through my German library card, but what I've seen so far I liked.
- unsui 4y agoWhoa. Where has this been all my life? Reasonable price, great selection of periodicals and newspapers. Definite value.
- MandieD 4y agoNone of the libraries I’m currently a member of has it, but the next city over does, so I’ll see if I can join that library - thanks for pointing this out!
- mongol 4y agoI like the reading experience of it using its app. It combines the physical and "digital" views well.
- flakeoil 4y agoYou could try readly.com. It's around 12 USD/month for a huge amount of magazines and news papers.
- tbran 4y agoJust pick one to support. You can still visit all 5. Preferably a local paper.