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Paywalls Would Work Better if They Didn’t Charge So Much

I’m not going to pay a dollar a month for the New York Times

Photo by Joanes Andueza on Unsplash

Yes, the New York Times is a fine newspaper. So is the Wall Street Journal and dozens of others. There are many sources for in-depth stories, deep analysis, and everything else that is good journalism.

But I don’t get my news that way now. I don’t get it from TV either unless there is a developing story of major personal importance like a terrorist incident or an approaching destructive storm.

I don’t subscribe to a physical newspaper and haven’t for many decades. When I was young, we did get our local paper delivered, but I seldom would read it because a newspaper is clumsy to hold and most of it gets thrown away. I preferred to get my news from my local NPR station.

Dead trees and polluting ink. I’ll be happy to see them go. (Tony Lawrence)

The Web

As the web developed, I listened to the radio less and less. Why wait an hour for the next news cycle when I could find the story on the internet? Why wait impatiently for someone to speak when I could read so much more quickly? Why be forced to listen to something unimportant to…