HACKER Q&A
📣 sharemywin

Would you pay for a news pass?


Not that I can pull this off, but if it were available would you pay for an all access news pass that paid for most of the major news sources that are currently behind a firewall?

If so, How much would you be willing to pay?


  👤 version_five Accepted Answer ✓
To be honest I value mainstream online news at $0. As I've said before, I often don't even believe it's worth accepting cookies to read an article, and will close the browser when asked. There are occasionally interesting pieces of analysis here and there, but rarely from major news sources.

I would potentially pay for good news aggregation / curation, and for real analysis / opinion that is interesting, not the pablum that comes out of mainstream news. The only real advantage news outlets like NYT have are that you can know what other people are talking about, overall the analysis is far to bland (or an best maybe intentionally ideological to try and appear controversial) to be worth anything.


👤 vimy
That’s Apple News and it seems to be a failure.

👤 sharemywin
for me I would probably pay about $10 or $20 per year.

Just curious if others feel that way?