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Author here: I don't think publications or journalists like ads themselves. However, if not enough subscription revenue is flowing in, they are going to have to use what's worked for them (but not for readers).

This is very much a bootstrapping problem. They need money and stability, and public support, to make the investments that would make the public support them.

I think the stakes are high enough for us to bicker about chicken and egg.