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Lee-Lee

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3. How do you plan for them to pay the bills?

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Sun Nov 19, 2017, 08:38 AM

Nov 2017

Ad revenue for online ads can make a lot of money for clickbat sites that just repeat other people’s work or make up stuff, but real news requires employing real people to do real journalism and those real people like to do things like eat, sleep in a home or apartment, have clothes and all that- so they need to be paid. And those real people have expenses like travel and offices and technology.

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Why are some high profile news organizations hiding behind a firewall? [View all] icymist Nov 2017 OP

hmm. maybe they need money to operate. shanny Nov 2017 #1

There you have it Achilleaze Nov 2017 #2

What utter nonsense mythology Nov 2017 #16

Ahh, you are the one who brought up "conspiracy" Achilleaze Nov 2017 #17

How do you plan for them to pay the bills? Lee-Lee Nov 2017 #3

This is not a reasonable complaint genxlib Nov 2017 #4

At least get the word right: it's PAYWALL Blue_Adept Nov 2017 #5

Journalism isnt free. NCTraveler Nov 2017 #6

I like free ...free is good But in order to have news...you have to pay for it...if someone does not Demsrule86 Nov 2017 #7

Um without a firewall they're an open invite to hackers Roland99 Nov 2017 #8

Do you get paid for your work? NightWatcher Nov 2017 #9

Freedom of the press does not mean the press works for free Mr. Ected Nov 2017 #10

Seriously? Do you also wonder why movies cost money to watch? n/t USALiberal Nov 2017 #11

MSNBC has a free live stream Atman Nov 2017 #12

Perhaps their business models require that they show a profit? MineralMan Nov 2017 #13

Josh Marshall just wrote a thing about this. sofa king Nov 2017 #14

CBSN is also good for 24 live streaming hexola Nov 2017 #15

In order to replace lost subscription revenue as people move from print to online. FarCenter Nov 2017 #18