One novel consequence of the new paywall model of journalism is that only your subscribers even see your articles. It used to be that when an important article was published in a national newspaper, everyone concerned had read it. Now only subscribers have.
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The Financial Times published an important (sounding) article about politics recently. I sent a link to a very well-connected Democratic donor in Silicon Valley. He couldn't read it because he's not an FT subscriber, and neither could I, because I'm not either.
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The paywall model may keep publications from going out of business, but it greatly decreases their influence. Now they're just newsletters.
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And that you found value in sending without actually validating, is curious. The value was in the headline, and / or the cost of the article being shit was low? Either way you’ve pushed the onus to evaluate onto the receiver; interesting.
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It was clear from the title that it would be relevant.
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