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Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)
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Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I understand that journalism needs to be paid for, but I don't think paywall's are much of a solution.

I don't want to pay a subscription for one publication's news. I don't even really want a subscription for a selection of publication's news. I just want to read whatever I want to read and I'm happy to pay a reasonable amount for that.

[–] cheesebag 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could you explain more- so you want a la carte options, like pay on a per-article basis? And to be clear, you know that free high-quality print media has never been a thing historically, right? Like, you never could access all articles from the entire history of the NYTimes on demand for free, that was never a thing. The paper for that day was locked in a metal box you had to pay to open, and all you got to see was half the front page.

Or, you know, support libraries...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

you know that free high-quality print media has never been a thing historically, right?

what gives you the impression that I wouldn't be aware of that. I said in my comment that journalism needs to be paid for.

In a perfect system, you buy some credit with a kind of clearing house, and then pay authors of whatever you wanted to read directly. A few cents a reader would net author's a lot more than they're currently receiving.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Advertising seems to be a dead end. The patron model is starting, but it seems focused on certain personalities. I don't believe anyone has developed a payment system yet that pays for cents at a time.