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re making money: the alternative to ad-revenue-through-clickbait is paywalls. Consumers have largely chosen the former. Some have suggested that a subscription
by lanfeust6 3y ago
re making money: the alternative to ad-revenue-through-clickbait is paywalls. Consumers have largely chosen the former.
Some have suggested that a subscription model to multiple papers (e.g. Spotify for news) would be appealing, and it might, but that doesn't immediately solve the problem of the form and content of the news. Longform article sources or retrospectives are probably the current best way to consume news.