Pay Wall - For and Against

Questions:


Q. What does David Simon mean by ‘slow suicide’?
Simon means how journalists who work for newspapers that have no pay wall , will suffer . This is because they will have very little wages to survive . No money is being made as profit by these newspapers because their content is free to access.


Q Why does he mean by saying anti-paywall people “don’t understand the first thing about actual journalism”?
He may mean how journalism is not just something people do for a hobby. It is a career that people decide to go into and have to do a lot of work in order to collect their information  , and these journalists also need a certain amount of money in order to survive . This is why pay wall is important , we need to consider the fact that the people who write these articles also need to earn a living. This is why paywall is important.


Q What does he mean by “journalism is a profession”?
I think he means that journalists write and publish articles hoping to make a living from it. While other people may not see this as a true profession , it actually is because journalists write and research in order to make money. They study journalism and research in depth like any other profession would require you to do.

Q What does he mean by “Band-Aid to cover a bullet hole”?

It means that when people choose not to pay for a certain newspaper , this is because they believe that in some time another news agency will deliver the news which is free and the readers will access this.
Q How much would you pay for Facebook (or any other social network)? Why this much?
I think I will not pay anything for Facebook because I do not use it that much , therefore it will be a waste of my money . However , for people who are addicted to Facebook £3-5 will be a reasonable amount every month


Q. What would make you pay to read a newspaper? (Value-added content)
I think if a newspaper covers a real life story of an incident that has happened to someone e.g. an acid attack , then I will pay to read this news , because it is a very personal thing to share online and I believe that it will teach me about how people who experience such things feel , and how they deal with it later in life.



Finally: In your own words put together a 200 – 300 word argument IN FAVOUR of Paywalls – to try to convince a young person who has never paid for a newspaper