A Ritzy L.A. Enclave Learned a Bitter Lesson About the Limits of Its Wealth

Re:A Ritzy L.A. Enclave Learned a Bitter Lesson About the Li... by MBCook on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:10AM (#45052386)

I’m not opposed to paying, but I see two issues:

1. I could read a newspaper without a subscription. I could buy just one issue. NYT does that that online

2. A newspaper in a vending machine showed you more than just the headline. Like the subhead, for example. I can’t even see that. The default NYT experience without a subscription gives you only the title. And I have to agree to $25/month to get anything else assuming I’m not using a paywall bypass

“We have stuff, we say you’ll like it, cough up a bunch of money to find out what” is a tough sell for me.

Paywalls that give you at least the first few sentences make far more sense to me.

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Re:A Ritzy L.A. Enclave Learned a Bitter Lesson About the Li... by sdeer on Thursday August 28, 2025 @02:45PM (#45055567)

Right now when I went to their front page I could see a one paragraph summary of several news items. Granted, other front page stories only show the headline but I think that is an adequate substitute for what we got from peeking at the vending machine window.

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Re:A Ritzy L.A. Enclave Learned a Bitter Lesson About the Li... by MBCook on Thursday August 28, 2025 @03:26PM (#45056026)

I’d agree. Oddly, if you’re direct linked to the article you don’t get it though.

So I guess I could go find the story on their homepage and see it there. That’s a rather odd workflow.

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