{"id":2003,"date":"2011-03-23T12:11:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2011-03-23T12:11:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T16:11:19","slug":"journalism-as-it-used-to-be-via-paul-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/journalism-as-it-used-to-be-via-paul-carr\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Journalism as it Used to Be via Paul Carr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Carr writing for TechCrunch<\/a> on the subject of paywalls:<\/p>\n

In fact it wasn\u2019t until the piece\u00a0was published<\/a>, this past Sunday, that the significance of the paywall really hit me. For the first time in my career, a piece I\u2019d written for a major newspaper was unavailable to the majority of Internet users. I couldn\u2019t easily link to it from my blog\u00a0and was forced instead to come up with a\u00a0kludgy solution<\/a> which involved making a screen grab of the first two paragraphs, pasting it on my blog and then linking to what would \u2013 for most visitors \u2013 be a\u00a0dead end<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All of this, of course, is still way better than pre-Internet writers had it. Before the web, columnists\u2019 opinions were about as permanent and shareable as fish wrapping. Unless a writer was high profile enough to have their words collected into a book, the only way for future readers to discover columns was to visit a library and pore\u00a0over microfilm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amidst all of this chatter about paywalls and shareable content, I had forgotten that merely a decade ago, the thought of reading something days or weeks later was much more difficult without browsing through a dewy decimal system in your library or going through pages and pages of newspaper prints hoping to find the story you needed. The database of words was only organized and catalogued by more words that needed to be read aloud and there was no search function.<\/p>\n

I’m still against paywalls that cost $450 a year (NYTIMES) but I can say that we’ve only had archives and Google and “profiles” to find words we wrote last year from a decade. The fact that I can look up tweets and posts that I crapped out 18 months ago is pretty amazing and a luxury that we have only started to get used to.<\/p>\n

Maybe this paywall thing isn’t so bad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Carr writing for TechCrunch on the subject of paywalls: In fact it wasn\u2019t until the piece\u00a0was published,…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-wj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2570,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/paul-carr-on-the-internet-community\/","url_meta":{"origin":2003,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Paul Carr on The Internet Community","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"TechCrunch: Really, what the press calls The Internet Community is more accurately described as\u00a0The People With Too Much Time On Their Hands Community \u2014 or perhaps\u00a0The I Spend My Life Dicking Around On Twitter And Call It A Job Community,\u00a0The I\u2019ll Do Anything The Internet Tells Me To Do Community\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Linked"","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3154,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/mg-siegler-paull-carr-and-michael-arrington-all-a-part-of-crunchfund\/","url_meta":{"origin":2003,"position":1},"title":"\u2605 MG Siegler, Paull Carr and Michael Arrington…all a part of CrunchFund","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"MG Siegler: Enough with burying the lede: yes, I\u2019m becoming a VC. 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