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What does David Simon mean by ‘slow suicide’? 

Slow suicide is the whole industry will continue to collapse until everyone swallows hard and goes behind a paywall.

Why does he mean by saying anti-paywall people “don’t understand the first thing about actual journalism”? The people who are against putting up paywalls.

What does he mean by “journalism is a profession”? Journalism is a profession; it requires careers, and careers require a living wage, and until newspapers recover a revenue stream for their online product, they have no future.What do you think made 1 million people pay for the NYT(New York Times)?s

The New York Times talked about the new values which made readers feel connected, informed and were able to relate.

  

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What does he mean by “Band-Aid to cover a bullet hole”? As more newspapers move to paywalls, it comes clearer to me that publishers are attempting to use a Band-Aid to cover a bullet hole. By putting up paywalls readers are only allowed to read a certain amount of context until the paywall aka band-aid is put preventing you from reading the rest of the article unless you pay.

 How much would you pay for Facebook (or any other social network)? Why this much? I would not pay for facebook, I would only pay £1 a month for other social medias like Snapchat and instagram its apps that i use on a regular basis and £1 is an affordable price.

What would make you pay to read a newspaper? (Value-added content) If the newspaper included stories which were diverse and mention topics I could relate to. Otherwise I would not pay for a newspaper.