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For years, digital news conformed to one section of the 1984 prophecy of the technology guru Stewart Brand—that "information wan
For years, digital news conformed to one section of the 1984 prophecy of the technology guru Stewart Brand—that "information wan
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2021-04-06
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For years, digital news conformed to one section of the 1984 prophecy of the technology guru Stewart Brand—that "information wants to be free because the cost of getting it out is getting lower." Now, it is relying on his other, lesser-known maxim—that "information wants to be expensive because it’s so valuable. "
As paywalls go up, and advertising yields continue to fall, publishers have pinned their hopes on subscriptions. Some suggest that it is a breach of publishers, moral obligation to make news freely accessible because it is a public good.
I don’t see why publishers have an ethical duty not to charge for the content they originate. Free news is a recent phenomenon. Newspaper publishers always charged readers, albeit a small amount compared with the cost of newsgathering. Furthermore, people have access to far more information than before the Internet. News cannot be patented once information is uncovered, it spreads rapidly across Twitter and Facebook, and is repeated by rivals and aggregators.
Yet the trend is clear. Most of the top US newspapers have a paywall in place, or are planning one. The financial model for print newspapers that most revenues came from advertising does not work online. The double-digit increase in on-line advertising revenues in the early 2000s has slowed to the low single figures, as growing traffic is mostly offset by falling advertising yields. It is obvious that when the space for advertising expands, prices fall. For a long time, this evaded news publishers, who lived in the vain hope that they could rely more on advertising in the online world, rather than less. Many important papers have reversed that tactic— the NYT’s circulation revenues now exceed those from advertising. Thus, news is increasingly being paid for by affluent individuals or produced as part of a corporate service.
The risk is that news will become slanted in the interests of corporations and the wealthy. So far, there isn’t much sign of that. The news organisations best placed to prosper from the shift have high standards. Indeed, the shift towards subscriptions could raise editorial standards. Free sites that need to boost page views to gain advertising have an incentive to go downmarket with more gossip and celebrity news; the ones that rely more on subscriptions have the reverse incentive.
But the fading era of advertising-subsidised newspapers and free-to-air television was at least democratic. At relatively low cost, everyone could be well informed. In the future, the information super high-way will have both fast and slow lanes.
The trend of setting up paywalls is mainly driven by the fact that______.
选项
A、traffic growth is slowing down
B、online advertising prices are dropping
C、advertising is shifting from print to online
D、the number of wealthy readers is increasing
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据题干关键词定位到第四段。通读第四段,可以发现设置支付墙最终是因为广告价格下降引起的收入下降,B项正确。
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考研英语一
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