Nobody wants to pay for news but many want to pay for great journalism

The article is a bit tangential to what I imagined based on the headline, so I won't comment on that.

I would be very happy to pay for journalism, though.

I don't know if it's always been this way, but traditional news media seem to basically report a thing, with some unfounded commentary, and that's that.

I would love to see a 'general affairs' version of something like lwn.net.

Headlines like 'Inflation hits 0.5%' are just bollocks without explaining what inflation is, why it matters, what 'real return' is, whether real return is actually useful in $CURRENT_YEAR, etc.

In the UK we seem to have a relentless focus on personalities which is quite frustrating. 'Cameron this, cameron that' 'Osborne will be...' - focus on the policies, please, I don't care about the politicking. They'll be in for four years regardless, you know? It's just gossip.

My guess is that it's based on the instantaneous nature of news nowadays. If the Daily Mail has something on their front page, as The Guardian you need something up very soon if not now. If not for ad views, simply for relevance.

It might be time for me to start picking up The Economist again. I liked the weekly format, it seemed to give them time to actually flesh things out a bit.