Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

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    8 months ago

    you know that free high-quality print media has never been a thing historically, right?

    what gives you the impression that I wouldn’t be aware of that. I said in my comment that journalism needs to be paid for.

    In a perfect system, you buy some credit with a kind of clearing house, and then pay authors of whatever you wanted to read directly. A few cents a reader would net author’s a lot more than they’re currently receiving.