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I rarely read Cricket articles at all. Feel like I get enough out of the sport watching the game and reading what y'all have to say.
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*Official* Australia in Sri Lanka 2016
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Prince EWS
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I think he's speaking from experience a bit with the Mind the Windows site he's involved with; I suspect he's looked into it and realised it's very hard to make a profit online just through advertising, and therefore concluded that most of the good stuff will be subscription-only shortly if it isn't already.
As I said though I think he's overlooking the fact that a lot of the best stuff on any given topic is just published on blogs, forums, amateur websites and social media for the fun of it.
hendrix
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Not all free content survives purely through advertising. I'm sure he's been thorough in covering this but there options such as Patreon. As well as sponsorship that still enables independence. Not to mention merchandising etc etc.
It's not simply a case of user pays vs advertising.
hendrix
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I'm not going to pretend that it's easy or that it's a fair system or anything like that but I think "you have to pay for good journalism" is patently not true, and (dare I say it) a bit defeatist. Jesus, that sounded very right wing so I'm gonna stop right there except for saying that I hope good journalists continue to research creative ways of funding their work.
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The Battlers Prince
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How is it that none of the bowlers are dropped. Oh that's right, they're from NSW
morgieb
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The only one that should've been dropped is a Victorian. WTF has been wrong with Starc and Hazlewood's performances for example? Also you don't drop Lyon off two underpar Tests.
Prince EWS
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Have you watched any of this series?
(apologies if your post was sarcastic; I don't know you well enough to tell)
The Battlers Prince
International Vice-Captain
Yes, I'm just upset because I'm a Queenslander. Also I hate Lyon
The Battlers Prince
International Vice-Captain
Yeeha well done Starc. I never doubted you.
"Shaun and Mo are very good players of spin bowling, so they come into the side at the expense of Joe, who's unlucky, and Uz, who's unlucky.
"It's just the way it has been this tour, so we've got to try to change it around and change our fortunes and see how they go on these types of tracks. It's a tough call on those two younger guys but it's only for this Test match.
Thus spake Boof