Not necessarily because in many cases the buyers of such ads dictated the editorial line.
I worry about that. Certainly ads were a wonderful business model when they were ads for department stores in print newspapers.
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New business models are coming that require neither ads (clickbait) nor subscriptions (artificially limited circulation). Journalism needs and incentive revolution, and it’s going to get one.
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It’s possible a good chunk of people might want to pay for something reasonable vs. something polarizing. That what I’m aiming for with
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As someone who's interested in leveraging subscriptions, I still hope there's a high bar for being successful in the space, even if that means anything I do fails. If it's behind a paywall, it better be damn good work, or else we're all worse off for it.
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I worry we bucket all ad based businesses together, when not every ads based business is the same.
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