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Or that the Youtube subscription is free and none of the newspapers mentioned are

• znpy 3y ago
  Or that none of the subscription fees are worth paying
  • mingus88 3y ago
    Strongly disagree. I pay $2/mo for an all digital NYT subscription and it’s worth it alone for 10 minutes of Wordle every day $2/mo is a rounding error for most people’s commute costs, even mine and I am fully remote. The fact of traditional web content is that companies who led with free content gave away too much for too long to build their footprint and the result is that people are trained to refuse even the smallest charge to read articles, even things they seek out daily I also feel that literacy in general has declined. Long form written content just doesn’t garner attention in a world where influencers are posting videos and images. The dopamine hit from social is something a well researched and written article can’t compete with today. Tying all of this back to your comment, Netflix subscription costs have balloned and their subscriber counts have picked up 30 million in 2023 according to statista. Netflix costs 10x what I pay for NYT. Journalism is far more valuable than the type of true crime docudramas cranked out on Netflix but it’s too late now
    • unsupp0rted 3y ago
      I would pay a multiple of $2/mo for a subscription to the journalism of record that the NYT used to be. In 2024, a subscription to NYT would be too expensive even if it were free.