Interestingly, right after leaving this discussion behind I went to read the post about the scientist resigning from Google's quantum stuff or whatever. It was a Forbes link which is paywalled of course. It then hit me that Forbes might be part of News+ and yeah, it is, and I have access to the article.

I'd like it if this happened more often. I don't like the advertising-only business model. But there has to be some practical middle ground. I'll never subscribe to Forbes directly. It's really too packed full of click bait and inflammatory content to justify it. But this article was an interesting interview and I'm glad I got to read it without resorting to sleazy tactics of undermining a copyright holder's legitimate control of their content.

The UX of Apple News has plenty of room for improvement, but, the idea of an Apple Music/Spotify for quality periodical-type content is appealing to me.

I’m in the camp of people who won’t pay for content - it’s just not worth it to me.

Journalism began to die with the repeal of the fairness doctrine.

I believe it’s full access to the recent news articles that are included in WSJ online subscription (No archive, no WSJ pro, no databases), but I don’t know for sure. It’s sort of like Spotify, how do you know you have access to every single album by artist X? All of the major front page articles people talk about are in News+ but without looking up each one in both sources I don’t really know for sure.