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by winningcontinue 2588 days ago
Washington Post and NYT are what the President of the United States says is fake news. At the same time, they're limiting the audience of their coverage to subscribers only beyond a few free articles a month. I wonder how ordinary people who can't/won't pay for subscriptions will receive their information to make up their minds after this retreat.
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> I wonder how ordinary people who can't/won't pay for subscriptions will receive their information to make up their minds after this retreat.

Don’t we already know the answer to that? They’ll get their “news” from their “friends” on Facebook.

The way it was done historically? Pay for one or two publications which instead of arriving at your doorstep every morning will be delivered to your phone every morning. The people who couldn't or wouldn't pay for good journalism would not receive any - at that point you'd be deriving your information from discourse with other people.
Most people read title to make up their minds. Unfortunately.
A lot of freebie newspapers summarize the original stories.