<story><title>Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30</title><url>https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/google-unlocks-33-of-publisher-paywalls-on-july-30-this-is-what-happens-next/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperbovine</author><text>No, their model is fine. Sell a decent product for money. The problem lies squarely with hordes of credulous morons who either don’t know or don’t care that their news is fake, and aren’t willing to shell out for quality content. Whether that exposes a deeper flaw in human nature, or is just an oddity of our times, is left to you to decide.</text></item><item><author>liability</author><text>So real news continues to make their content harder to read, while fake news does everything they can to spread far and wide.&lt;p&gt;Journalism for profit is fundamentally broken.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;No, their model is fine. Sell a decent product for money.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The product of good journalism is investigation, reporting, and insight. What news organizations sell is a writeup. This is a mismatch. I&amp;#x27;m interested in paying for the ideas, not the prose.&lt;p&gt;When, say, the &lt;i&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt; reported on the Stormy Daniels hush money last year, everyone else re-reported it soon after. If you had a &lt;i&gt;Journal&lt;/i&gt; subscription you got the news slightly sooner; otherwise, wait a tiny bit and every news organization from VICE to Breitbart has their own story about it too. Paying for the original source makes you feel good about supporting journalism, but that&amp;#x27;s it.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s rather like the companies who produce a high-quality open-source product with a medium-quality cloud-hosted offering and then blame open source when Amazon also offers their high-quality product in the cloud. If the interesting and valuable part of your work is freely copiable and you&amp;#x27;re only charging for a delivery channel that anyone can provide, I feel bad for you but I&amp;#x27;m entirely unsurprised your business model isn&amp;#x27;t working out.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps one answer, as with some open source code, is to see journalism as a social good in itself, worth supporting as an activity even if we don&amp;#x27;t have a way to turn its output into a profitable product. Perhaps another is, like other open source, to find people who have a commercial need for good journalism and have them subsidize it in the process in some way.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30</title><url>https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/google-unlocks-33-of-publisher-paywalls-on-july-30-this-is-what-happens-next/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperbovine</author><text>No, their model is fine. Sell a decent product for money. The problem lies squarely with hordes of credulous morons who either don’t know or don’t care that their news is fake, and aren’t willing to shell out for quality content. Whether that exposes a deeper flaw in human nature, or is just an oddity of our times, is left to you to decide.</text></item><item><author>liability</author><text>So real news continues to make their content harder to read, while fake news does everything they can to spread far and wide.&lt;p&gt;Journalism for profit is fundamentally broken.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beatgammit</author><text>I keep hoping that something like GNU Taler will catch on. I have having subscriptions to various services, and I think something like Taler will help because it makes payments easier.&lt;p&gt;An even better service would be to have something like Netflix, but for news. I could pay $X&amp;#x2F;month and have access to a variety of news sources. Ideally, those news sources would be paid according to their popularity and accuracy, and I would have a simple bill every month to pay instead of several.&lt;p&gt;I had a subscription to The Economist for a little while, but I found that I still read other news sources and only read a handful of Economist articles. I want quality journalism, but having subscriptions to every source I trust is cost prohibitive and no single source has everything I want. I want a curated set of high quality articles for a constant price.</text></comment>