The writers and editors understand that privacy is central to their lifestyle and work - few sources will allow exclusively on-the-record interviews. The accou

The writers and editors understand that privacy is central to their lifestyle and work - few sources will allow exclusively on-the-record interviews. The accountants that pay the writers and editors believe that, to make the math work of "Cheap enough that a viable number of subscribers will pay", the subscription must be ad-subsidized. These are two seperate groups, and lumping them in to call them both hypocritical is lazy in thought, or ignorant in recognizing that the New Yorker is more than one person. Yes, change should start at the paper running the story. The fact they haven't yet convinced all their subscribers or accountants, and ~~possibly not even~~ presumably the public at large, does not detract from their point. Edited, but struck-through instead of deleted