I certainly pay for some of my news. I subscribe to two US newspapers, one international one, a trade newspaper, a glossy trade magazine, and two US weeklies that are among the heavy hitters of criticism and cultural writing, including a lot of news analysis and investigative reporting. And that’s just the paid subscriptions.

I wouldn’t be so quick to assume the HN audience, of all audiences, is penny-pinching serious journalism out of existence. I bet we even have a fair number of WSJ subscribers among us.