I fundamentally disagree with this article, the tenor of which (as the title suggests) is to argue that we need to start paying, on some sort of subscription basis, for online news. It's not going to happen. Even if the pay sites manage to lobby to close down free online news sources such as the CBC or BBC, I feel confident I would get all the news I need from my social networks. This is especially the case given that so much of what constitutes traditional news is not what I need, consisting as it does of press releases, marketing content, and manufactured crises. Still, that's not going to stop some organizations from trying to charge for news. Fine with me; they're just writing themselves out of the internet conversation.
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