Of course I avoid these articles. First, most material behind paywalls aren't that great. The NY Times hardly has the monopoly on quality reporting. In fact, m

Of course I avoid these articles. First, most material behind paywalls aren't that great. The NY Times hardly has the monopoly on quality reporting. In fact, most money-driven publications tend to be low quality in many respects, especially when facing people with power and money, because the paywall isn't their only revenue stream. The Intercept, which is a non-profit, routinely beats out the NYT on national security reporting. Second, these paywalls can be easily bypassed. Again, why pay for this? These notions that these words are their property and hence need to be paid for it have no moral weight to me, especially when some of these publications got us into the Iraq War.