Online #journalism has become absolutely impossible to consume. Nearly everything aside from the shitty news sites is behind a #paywall.
Find a link that looks interesting? 95% chance you won't be able to read the article because it is paywalled. No, I am not going to subscribe to your publication just to read one article.
Make it possible for me to kick you half a buck or a buck for a single article and we'll talk. Maybe I'll even be back for more. But to lock myself into a #subscription if I don't even know I am going to peruse it properly? Fuck that noise.
(And yes, I get it, journalists also need to - and should be - paid for their work. And yes, ad-supported journalism is dying. But I also only have a limited budget available, and I don't consume enough online journalism to make most subs worthwhile to me. Such is life)