>> The problem with all the non-subscription news sites is that they need advertising income. That’s
>> achieved by either driving sheer volume of traffic to their sites with ever increasing hyperbolic
>> headlines (Express, Sun etc), or by driving a certain type of visitor to their site
>> by putting a particular slant on events (Guardian etc). Some, like the Mail, do both.
>> But as a result, anyone using those sites alone as source of news ends up
>> at best as uninformed, or at worst mislead
The other way is paywall or other subscription model. The Guardian has followed the latter using a membership model but without, at least overtly, paywalling content.
The Guardian's liberal left slant is what it is. I'm not aware of it being more slanted now on line than the paper I bought daily throughout my commuting life.
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