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As a journalist, I defend the habit of sharing archive links. Paywalls are a lazy and detrimental solution to a larger financial problem for media organization
by camillomiller 3y ago
As a journalist, I defend the habit of sharing archive links.
Paywalls are a lazy and detrimental solution to a larger financial problem for media organizations. They limit the access to information to a specific subset of people, and let misinformation run wild and free.
So yes, sharing the article is important in this case.
If there was, say, a 300$ per year global subscription to a 100 of publications, I'm also sure 90% of hacker news would buy it.
- raincole 3y ago> If there was, say, a 300$ per year global subscription to a 100 of publications, I'm also sure 90% of hacker news would buy it. No one is going to pay $300/yr to read news articles online. But even people do that, by your logic it's just limiting the access to information to a specific group of those who are able and willing to pay $300/yr to read news.
- blairbeckwith 3y agoI assure you that many people spend $300 annually on news and journalism.
- alemanek 3y agoThis kind of already exists with Apple News+. Not sure how well that is going but if anyone has the reach to make this work it would be Apple. Personally I am for anything that can decouple advertising from reporting. There are just too many perverse incentives that it creates.