Love me some techdirt, but this is off base in a few ways. For one thing NYTimes and Politico are both profitable. Whether they're good is up to interpretation,

Love me some techdirt, but this is off base in a few ways. For one thing NYTimes and Politico are both profitable. Whether they're good is up to interpretation, but I don't think the likes of techdirt can say they're failing. They mention 404 Media in there as somebody who's doing it right. They're about to put up an email wall for their content because AI and monopolies and social media and tracking users will save them.[1] But one thing this article has for it that I haven't found in most other reading is an attempt at a solution. I mean at least it links to a discussion about it.[2] I'm only half-way through it, and so far it's a radical approach. Given the gutting of journalism I believe a radical change is what we need. [1] https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/ https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-addre... [2] https://lpeproject.org/blog/taking-media-out-of-the-market/ https://lpeproject.org/blog/taking-media-out-of-the-market/