The decision to drop a paywall can provide insight into how a news organization’s “values intersect with its commodification strategy, its technology design, and its brand identity” as outlets of all stripes are still deciding how much their reporting should cost.
This discussion has been going on for two decades.
“Because otherwise nobody will read a damned thing they write”.
Oh, a few pundits and holdouts will read the Times because they think it still matters.
It doesn’t.
(Paid trials for FT content?
I wouldn’t read FT if they paid me, having seen the quality of the stuff that gets linked to.)
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