>The opposite is true, actually: these news services are incredibly, probably overly, sensitive to what stories are driving organic traffic and which are not.

>The opposite is true, actually: these news services are incredibly, probably overly, sensitive to what stories are driving organic traffic and which are not. I thought about it and just had to rage recently. What is _organic traffic_ for something like the NYTimes that is a subscribtion paper and not any public ad-invested news site. I can tell you, nobody uses the NYTimes search function to find old articles, people inherently just open up the site or app and browse what's fed to them. Are we saying NYTimes using the X free article day to bombard paid subscribers with shitty content when subscribers generally want curated good content? But also if NYTimes is then curating what a subscriber sees as the daily paper, why do they go and gaslight the subscribers?