Paywalls were put up by newspapers
to fund the future of journalism, online
after the bottom dropped out the analogue
advertising market and far fewer folk
bought printed newspapers.
Digital print relies on fixed subscription
where reliance on adverts often hides
behind pleas for paid memberships,
where the newspaper proprietor says
'you can't take this print away from behind the pay wall'.
That advertising has pushed print news
to this defensiveness place is old old news,
and many who are interviewed can't help
but go along with the media of the day,
to get publicity for their latest project.
But when money and power colour information
don't expect a press free at the point
of it being easily read any time soon,
much less in the future.
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