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Originally Posted by rhyds
I derided it at the time, but The Times' paywall seems, from what I'm told (I'm not a sub), to be the best way of financing a quality online operation.
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The Times is good and a paywall is a good idea. In fact the papers that have succumbed to the clickbait business model all use a paywall instead. The Times, The FT, The Economist, New York Times etc. All are still good papers albeit not everyone can afford subscriptions to them and few will subscribe to all of them. The FT for example is an expensive paywall.
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Originally Posted by Chris
I never bother to log in any more. It's too painful. Just delete the cookies every time it says I've reached my limit. Which is a farce, as I am paying for it.
At least, I'm paying for it until next time I log on to my bank, at which point I'm going to cancel the DD.
You are absolutely right, they have sacked almost anyone who was capable of writing an interesting or engaging piece of commentary and filled their pages with click bait "Top 25 ways to [insert mundane grot from interwebs here] - in pictures".
Even the morning briefing email is now penned by some anonymous suit who seems incapable of proof reading or spell checking his work.
And half the time they don't even allow comments any more.
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A lot of the columnists they've let go still write at the spectator so you have that. I think the Weekly publications are swarming into the gap left by the demise of the daily printed press.
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Also you do get some really good in-depth articles online it's just spread out across many different sites. There is a site called Longform (
http://longform.org/) which curates them. It's not great if you want analysis of current events but it does have some excellent non-fiction writing on there.