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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by Terretta on Friday March 02, 2018 @04:57PM (#16506129)
> represents a period of time where average people used the open Web to publish

Come on, you know publishing can’t work without a paywall or your adblocker turned off, everyone knows that.

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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by sanderjd on Friday March 02, 2018 @05:21PM (#16506293)
Publishing can work without those things. What's not clear is that journalism can. It is expensive to groom primary sources and investigate stories. I'm quite happy that at least a few organisations seem to have figured out a model by which they can fund such things. Otherwise it would be very difficult for me to know anything true about the world outside my immediate friends and family.
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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by Terretta on Friday March 02, 2018 @10:44PM (#16507723)
Print journalism worked fine when it was local owned, up to 3 papers.

TV journalism worked fine when it was local owned, 30 mins on up to 3 channels.

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Re:Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s by sanderjd on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:16AM (#16514783)
My comment is present tense. I'm talking about what can work now, not what worked in the past.
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