I pay for a subscription to Murdoch's WSJ, and get a paper copy delivered every morning as well as online access (cost is huge, $400/year). Even so, I read mos

I pay for a subscription to Murdoch's WSJ, and get a paper copy delivered every morning as well as online access (cost is huge, $400/year). Even so, I read most WSJ stories because I find them linked from Google News where I have lots of special news-search sections defined. I just don't have the time to page through 75 sheets of paper every day (as I did twenty years ago), or poke randomly around the WSJ's very slow and poorly-organized web site (vastly inferior to NYT). If Murdoch's WSJ disappears from Google News, it will disappear from my world and very likely I'd just end my subscription. More subtly, when the WSJ writes about me (very occasionally), most of the value to me comes when their story is chosen to be placed outside their paywall and can be linked freely; if WSJ stories become uniformly inaccessible, there will be little incentive for sources to cooperate with WSJ reporters and columnists.