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Who is going to pay for it? Every time journalists try to get paid enough to eat and have a roof over their head people cry "paywall!!!"
Or if they do ad supported people cry "ad infested cancer site!!" Or "lol adblock!"
Just to be clear, i adblock the shit out of the internet. I prefer some kind of paid model, but i'll get downvoted to hell for saying that. I'm not smart enough to have any good answers on how to pay journalists. But crying "paywall" at everything is not helpful...
What i dislike is having to have an account and password for everything. There needs to be a better model/system for paying journalists (not just in gaming media)
Currently the only business models are:
And it seems like the only sustainable ones in this day and age are 1 and 2 (to the detriment of our society)
I always get a little annoyed when people imply consumers are at fault for what’s actually just shitty economic practices.
I’m no economist, but ad-supported everything just seems like a stagnant bubble trying desperately not to burst by throwing more ads everywhere and calling you the bad guy for blocking them.
A hundred percent, but the fact remains that journalists have a very hard time supporting themselves in their profession. A job that is critical (when done well) to an informed public.
It must be depressing knowing you could just take a TypeScript React bootcamp and probably double salary in a year. Like, journos have an important job. It's just not lucrative, despite its value to people/society.