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Re:The Guardian Is Being Swamped with 'Dark Traffic' by crdoconnor on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @05:56AM (#8555954)
This presumes that 'keep it free' is actually desirable. Free journalism means the person reading it is the product. Perhaps the less of that, the better.
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Re:The Guardian Is Being Swamped with 'Dark Traffic' by thisGuysAccount on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @10:04AM (#8556789)
the existing model has been to subsidize newspaper sales with advertising for a very long time. This same model carried forward through radio and television.

The alternative is a pay-per-view service, or subscribing to wires. I haven't done any research into the viability of that type of service, but it is a paradigm shift.

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