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I have the same reasoning. The NY Times has done some awful things, and they have some biases that are offensive to me.

But I am a paid subscriber! (As I am with the WSJ). Why? It's a much better source, even with the faults, than all that "free" journalism that the Hacker News people seem to like so much.

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You get the future you pay for!

And I guess you get a future full of clickbait in the race to the bottom that is journalism that no one pays for.

Maybe so, but the future we don't pay for is splogs, misleading websites, paid "astroturf" efforts, etc.

I'd rather have the devil I know.

I'd not like to see this response go unanswered; I'm the first to attack these organisations for the damage they do and I've long abandoned reading them, having written them off for the damage they've already done.

But I can respect honest acknowledgement of the bad while arguing the good side is worth staying. You'll (obvs) have a better perspective as a subscriber and given you can approach the thing with nuance I'm willing to go with your take on it.

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