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Re: Please Pay for Your News

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I would be prepared to pay per article. I am not eager to subscribe to any particular newspaper. I want to consume media "a la carte", not "all inclusive". Unfortunately, newspapers wants me to susbcribe and here we are.

Do you ask for per-movie pricing from Netflix?

Not them but plenty of other services offer per movie rental or purchase

Re: Please Pay for Your News

#42

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Absolutely this. "I'm looking for unbiased news" is a standard line by people who do not read the news.

I'm sorry if my point wasn't clear, I'm looking for as close to non-biased as possible. As I layed out in my numbered list I'm completely aware that there are no unbiased sources. To claim I don't read the news is just attacking and not really helpful to my legitimate desire to find news sources that aren't just pundits of organized interests.

Okay, then I'm really not sure what you are trying to say. It sounds to me like, you have tried a bunch of news sources, and none of them are as unbiased as you would like, so you would prefer the news not exist at all than exist in this state.

Or maybe you are saying, you don't want to pay for the news unless it matches your expectations -- but you DO want the rest of us to pay for it so it continues to exist?

Re: Please Pay for Your News

#43
post #25

I tried, except, everywhere I looked, they promoted Op-ed pieces with equal billing and authority as traditional investigative reporting. Washington Post, NY times seemed liked the "best" based on track record for investigative reporting on politics and international coverage (with a US focus) but I cancelled both after a year. Open to suggestions... Edit: Also NYTimes cancelation process is AOL levels of hostile. Th…

If you’re going to encounter opinion-based editorializing anyway, there are probably worse sources than one with an overly well informed investigative journalism editorial board.

Re: Please Pay for Your News

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post #20

I would be prepared to pay per article. I am not eager to subscribe to any particular newspaper. I want to consume media "a la carte", not "all inclusive". Unfortunately, newspapers wants me to susbcribe and here we are.

You're looking for Blendle. It's pretty cool.

https://launch.blendle.com/

Re: Please Pay for Your News

#45
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

So your argument is, since it's not exactly what you want, you aren't going to pay for it.

If you have to resort to putting words in someone's mouth, it's a decent hint that either your position is weak or your understanding of their position is. To answer your question: no, that's not my argument.

In that case I'm sorry -- what IS your argument? It wasn't clear to me from your original comment.

Re: Please Pay for Your News

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the idea that paid news sources are some unique arbiters of truth is dangerous

let me know how to find the non-paid source who works full time checking out my local city politicans and officials (because that's a full time job even in a city of 80k people)

Re: Please Pay for Your News

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post #20

I would be prepared to pay per article. I am not eager to subscribe to any particular newspaper. I want to consume media "a la carte", not "all inclusive". Unfortunately, newspapers wants me to susbcribe and here we are.

I think this would lead to papers writing articles that people would actually read, which sounds pretty great. Until you realize that that mentality is the whole reason Buzzfeed exists, and why the media pushes negative news so hard. That is what sells.

Re: Please Pay for Your News

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I disagree. Don't pay for the news. I might pay for Netflix or HBO. If one is insufficiently entertaining, I won't. It makes sense for Netflix/HBO to compete on producing the most entertaining and addicting product, and I know that's exactly what I'm paying for. If news agencies are funded by having more subscribers, they'll also be incentivized to produce the most entertaining and addictive content. The value of new…

Great, so you are saying that NO news is preferable to the current situation.

Re: Please Pay for Your News

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post #25

I tried, except, everywhere I looked, they promoted Op-ed pieces with equal billing and authority as traditional investigative reporting. Washington Post, NY times seemed liked the "best" based on track record for investigative reporting on politics and international coverage (with a US focus) but I cancelled both after a year. Open to suggestions... Edit: Also NYTimes cancelation process is AOL levels of hostile. Th…

News is not perfect, just like any other platform or business you use is not perfect.

I think paying for news and not reading all of it are orthogonal. If you don't like curation, RSS is still solid.

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