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I don't want to have tons of subscriptions to read interesting news (reddthat.com)
submitted 6 hours ago by DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com to c/rant@lemmy.sdf.org
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I understand that effective journalism costs money to produce, proficient journalists should get and will go where they are paid, and sites need funds to maintain their operations. All that makes sense. However, I don't read one website I use Lemmy and internet searches to find news I'm interested in reading. I maybe go to the same paywalled news site twice a week at most, but rarely if ever quarce a month. It would make no sense for me to have a subscription to any paywalled news site even if I wanted to spend money. I have no option other than to use proxies, assume the article from others' comments, or just read the title.

The internet news media system sucks, but I don't see a solution.

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

As someone who spent a few decades in it, the advertising/subscription model for media is wholly broken and hurting the public.

Honestly maybe they should be funded hands-off with public oversight by ISP money. Lol.

[–] Bell@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

We never made a micro payment system so I can pay $0.25 to read an article

[–] elvith@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

There were some tries (at least where I live). Problem was that they expected you to pay for the articles and not showing more than the headline. If you unlocked it, you just found out, that it was often just regurgitating the other (free low quality) news articles from elsewhere. It was hard to find some quality articles and after a few tries I stopped using that. They didn’t last long. I wonder if no one wanted to pay in general or if no one was interested to pay for low quality articles.