Re:BuzzFeed News Asks Readers to Chip in with Donations
by JumpCrisscross on Monday August 27, 2018 @07:31PM
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> there are plenty of publications that have gone belly-up after putting up a pay wall - there are just too many alternatives with near identical content
I don’t fault them for trying. But if there are “many alternatives with near identical content,” what is lost in their going?
There is ad-funded free content and quality content behind paywalls. Donor-funded nonprofit journalism exists in some markets. But donor-funded private enterprise? Foolish.
I don’t fault them for trying. But if there are “many alternatives with near identical content,” what is lost in their going?
There is ad-funded free content and quality content behind paywalls. Donor-funded nonprofit journalism exists in some markets. But donor-funded private enterprise? Foolish.