[bollorior]

I mean, you've just outlined the way that newspapers' business model is delusional and broken. Lots of people are prepared to pay them for something they make, but they have decided that they're only prepared to accept money in a specific way and on specific terms. In fact, most paywalls assume that that specific news outlet is the most important one in your life. None of them are prepared to offer you a plan based on the more realistic scenario that you occasionally want to read something of theirs of particular interest, but don't want their take on every story, nor their particular curation of what to read on a given day.

[jeremyjh]

Great point. If there were a service I could subscribe to that would give revenue to content producers in a common network based on page views I'd be interested. I like to be able to follow links in news feeds to read particular articles but since they may be in dozens of different publications there is no way I'm going to subscribe to just any one of them.

edit: maybe this is what Apple News is? I can read lots of articles but have to go in through that portal, I can't click links on Reddit. Sometimes I do go into Apple News and find the same article but that is time consuming and inconvenient and often it isn't there.