what if we made our low-quality "view from nowhere" journalism more expensive and annoying to access

CNN launches a digital paywall, charging some users to read articles for the first time | CNN Business

CNN, one of the most popular news websites in the world, is starting to ask some of its visitors to pay $3.99 a month for access.

you get all of the benefits of hollow, ad-engagement chasing feckless corporate-sanitized cable TV "news" mush, but now it's more expensive AND difficult to access CEO Zaslav, king of the fail-upward brunchlords, is very smart

If I wanted to hear the equivalent, I could spend twice that to go eat breakfast in a Denny's AND get the bonus of some fun placemat games and crayons to play with. Boycott CNN (and NYT and WaPo and all the fucking rest). Zombie Fourth Estate must die.

Bet people are living up to pay for that. 🙄

And the headline is incomprehensible. What does "for the first time" refer to?

I'm trying to imagine what kind of person who has ever seen/read CNN would even consider paying for it.

How does Zazlov never lose job?

I like CNN Business reporting on CNN getting a paywall. Real ouroboros thing they got going on there.

Now MAGA will have to pay to be offended

Hey, “view from nowhere” is ignoring the countless people stuck in waiting rooms without a remote