I understand that effective journalism costs money to produce, proficient journalists should get and will go where they are paid, and sites need funds to maintain their operations. All that makes sense. However, I don’t read one website I use Lemmy and internet searches to find news I’m interested in reading. I maybe go to the same paywalled news site twice a week at most, but rarely if ever quarce a month. It would make no sense for me to have a subscription to any paywalled news site even if I wanted to spend money. I have no option other than to use proxies, assume the article from others’ comments, or just read the title.
The internet news media system sucks, but I don’t see a solution.
As someone who spent a few decades in it, the advertising/subscription model for media is wholly broken and hurting the public.
Honestly maybe they should be funded hands-off with public oversight by ISP money. Lol.
We never made a micro payment system so I can pay $0.25 to read an article