Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, I understand that journalism needs to be paid for, but I don’t think paywall’s are much of a solution.

    I don’t want to pay a subscription for one publication’s news. I don’t even really want a subscription for a selection of publication’s news. I just want to read whatever I want to read and I’m happy to pay a reasonable amount for that.

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      8 months ago

      Could you explain more- so you want a la carte options, like pay on a per-article basis? And to be clear, you know that free high-quality print media has never been a thing historically, right? Like, you never could access all articles from the entire history of the NYTimes on demand for free, that was never a thing. The paper for that day was locked in a metal box you had to pay to open, and all you got to see was half the front page.

      Or, you know, support libraries…