Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
by malandrew on Thursday July 09, 2020 @08:29PM
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> quality journalism drives subscriptions.
A more effective paywall drives subscriptions. Once you have a paywall, subscriptions are as much about clicks as ads.
I don't have a subscription myself, but I have considered paying for one because acquaintances with a low bar for quality occasionally want to share and discuss something behind the paywall and I can't rely on all of them to know how to print a pdf and share that with me.
As subscribers witness the quality decline, they'll cancel their subscriptions.
The NY Times today is not the NY Times of A.M. Rosenthal.
A more effective paywall drives subscriptions. Once you have a paywall, subscriptions are as much about clicks as ads.
I don't have a subscription myself, but I have considered paying for one because acquaintances with a low bar for quality occasionally want to share and discuss something behind the paywall and I can't rely on all of them to know how to print a pdf and share that with me.
As subscribers witness the quality decline, they'll cancel their subscriptions.
The NY Times today is not the NY Times of A.M. Rosenthal.