Paywalled
If you only want to consume news that someone with a bunch of spare money is willing to pay to have you hear, you’re embarking on a process that eventually leads to you and lots of other people not really knowing what’s going on.
Want is not the correct word. I know I am not able to afford every single news source that asks for a sub fee. Or honestly even a few of them.
Yeah, that’s fair – if there’s a huge variety of news sources posted, so that the model is that you subscribe to /c/news but have to pay $50/month to all sorts of places to actually read the articles (even to subscribe the main sources posted), then it’s a problem.
What does the second bullet-point specify in the guidelines for submissions in this community?
On my screen it says “Mods are encouraging the users to unintentionally undermine journalism as a workable endeavor, when it’s already badly struggling in this country.” What’s yours say?
Mine says “Defining journalism as a strictly capitalist endeavor is self-defeating”.
Few people have the money or wherewithal to subscribe to every small town newspaper in the country, much less the world, just so they can read articles you post. And getting bent out of shape at people trying to live their lives as informed as possible without being squeezed dry of every penny they have is ludicrous.
Ha, I’d like to keep arguing but it seems that me and the Beehaw mods / community simply don’t see this issue the same way. Is ok.
Where can I pay
anonymouslyprivately?What kind of gift card? They seem to accept some “promo code”, but if that’s coming from a gift card specific to this site, no one will be able to use that.
If you really feel like the Seattle Times knowing your real name is a catastrophe, you can buy one of those Vanilla Visa gift cards and use that for the subscription. I think that’s not necessary, but it’s certainly an option.
