My issue with the news sites is that they often want as much or even more money for their subscription than they charged for their newspaper. A newspaper had to be set, printed, boxed, distributed to a drop off point, and then folded up by a kid who would drop it on my doorstep at 6 am. The cost of running a website has got to be pennies on the dollar compared to all of their previous overhead. But do they pass those savings on to people? No! They decided they need to make 10x more money because of a technology that made their jobs way easier. So yeah, fuck them. Especially now that half of their content is just opinionated muckraking, and posting screenshots of Twitter. I do have some magazine subscriptions, and a subscription to the NYT because I feel like they actually perform quality journalism, but most of these news companies aren’t worth shit.
My issue with the news sites is that they often want as much or even more money for their subscription than they charged for their newspaper. A newspaper had to be set, printed, boxed, distributed to a drop off point, and then folded up by a kid who would drop it on my doorstep at 6 am. The cost of running a website has got to be pennies on the dollar compared to all of their previous overhead. But do they pass those savings on to people? No! They decided they need to make 10x more money because of a technology that made their jobs way easier. So yeah, fuck them. Especially now that half of their content is just opinionated muckraking, and posting screenshots of Twitter. I do have some magazine subscriptions, and a subscription to the NYT because I feel like they actually perform quality journalism, but most of these news companies aren’t worth shit.