I recently found ground.news. it is an interesting news aggregator sight in that it combined multiple sources for each story. It doesn't really answer some of your needs but for each story it shows you which sources are pay-walled and which ones aren't.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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It should be noted that, in the US at least, your library card will often give you online access to many publications.
I agree the convenience would be great. But the reason it’s rare is that the business model does not work out for the newspapers.
This would lead to reduced revenue for the newspapers.
We already live in the world where news is behind paywall and disinformation is free. This would lead to collapse of more newspapers and further deterioration of the landscape.
We need a better model than Spotify to apply to news.
What, something that keeps removing features?
I think Inkl does exactly what you want
This. Is. Exactly. What. I. Wish. For. A. Very. Long. Time.
Nowadays every news site has paywalls. I'm willing to pay for good work, but if I pay a single news provider, I'm missing too much. Nobody is willing to pay for every publisher. Even if an article is just a few cents I neither want to be annoyed with the payment process nor do I want to manually keep track of how much I spent for news in a month.
We really need a platform providing a news flat rate, aggregating most larger publishers.
No they can fuck off with the charging me money to read their article thing. I would prefer that they load that shit up to the gills with ads that I then block
I’m not exactly an expert, but I doubt the newspaper gets paid for blocked ads.
Nope you're spot on, of course they don't. Something something ability something something need, gating information except to those who can afford to support their organization should classify them as something other than news media.
Bruh newspapers were never free.
He does have point, though. People who can’t afford to pay for information shouldn’t be left out.
Which is why public libraries get newspaper and periodical subscriptions.
You’re right. To me, libraries are were books live, so I forgot about the newspapers.