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In our convos abt the future of journalism, we also need to talk abt subscription costs: NYT (digital): $180 WaPo (digital): $120 LATimes (digital): $98 WSJ: $420 All of this begins to add up. Yes, it takes money to do reporting. But the average person can't afford all this. 1/
How many people have _ever_ subscribed to all four of these newspapers? At the pinnacle of print in 2000, not many. For one, it was a rare address where delivery of all was available. For two, no one thought you needed to subscribe to all of them to be well informed.
It's actually within reach for more people than ever. I get the employee discount for the NYT, which of course most people don't get. But I pay $50/year for WaPo b/c I have Amazon Prime and LAT+WSJ (+ a lot more) is $120/year through Apple News.
I did, 1990-95! Not the physical LATimes (b/c I don't thing that was generally available in NYC then, except maybe at Hotalings) Also FT. Would pick up the next-day NYT at the loading dock at 9:45 every night. Certainly not a reading list for even the incurably well-informed then
Also paid through the nose for a daily national aggregator service (for LATimes, BaltoSun, BostonTimes, ChiTrib, Des Moines Register, &c.), first via fax then via email. There was a market then for keeping a wet finger in the breeze and taking the national pulse by how the /1
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