• Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you insist on keeping the paywall then posting news and inviting other peoples’ opinions without allowing them access to the link is bad form, no?

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      1 year ago

      The news is accessible, just not for free. Doesn’t stop it being good original reporting that should be shared. NYT does provide a limited number of free articles per month. If we only read and share free articles, then we’d miss out on a lot of very solid reporting or even miss the point of the reporting.

      For example, earlier this month someone shared a free article that analyzed the NYT’s reporting on near-miss aircraft collisions at airports. Most people dismissed the article since the planes were missing by pretty large margins, but that’s because the actual story reported in the original article concerned overworked and understaffed air traffic controllers. The planes coming too close to each other is a byproduct of that, but that’s what people on Lemmy focused on because the secondary, free source, chose to focus on that more sensational topic.

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        1 year ago

        None of this addresses the point:

        Don’t share a pay walled article if you want discussion on it, the majority aren’t going to pay for it just to discuss it

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          1 year ago

          I’m not sharing it to discuss it. I’m sharing it to share the information contained within it and it’s worth reading in its entirety. The discussion is a byproduct of the forum on which I share it.