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Comment by JohnJamesRambo | Hacker News Reader

Does everyone on HN have NY Times subscriptions? So many articles posted here are from there and I can’t read them without going through lots of hoops.

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I think a lot do. I have a digital sub. It's $9.99/mo, but goes up after a year, and when I call to cancel they lower it to $9.99/mo again.

The Daily podcast is wonderful. The NYT isn't without fault, but they are probably the best media company in the US.

I subscribe to the NY Times (and the print edition, anachronistically), as well as a few other outlets. Good journalism costs a lot of money.

Personally, I had no idea they even paywalled these articles at all. On the browser I run (Firefox, using uBlock and uMatrix with extremely restrictive settings, basically anything but plain HTML has to be whitelisted) everything works just fine.

At $10/month it's really worth it, although you have to remember to cancel and resubscribe after a year.

They do an awful lot of important investigative journalism, and I don't want to see what a society without such work looks like.

Interesting post to be getting down voted. I personally don't subscribe, but I value opinions that are different than mine (which include all media outlets, on all sides).

I DO subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, which is worth the cost to me. I'm a stock market junkie so there's that.

HN hates the news media and expects hobbyist bloggers and youtubers to become reliable and comprehensive sources of news any day now...

I guess people still see the WSJ and NYT on opposite ends of a spectrum. But while the ideological differences persist, I think the more significant difference these days is between reputable outlets and those that are not. On that axis, the WSJ and NYT are both fine, as are a few others.

Most sites with soft paywalls you can just open in an incognito window. They're doing it with cookies.

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