Hi Tom,

Thanks for your comment. I read around 60 sources of news each day and try and curate the best stories I uncover. While I try to be sensitive to the pay vs. free content issue, I am always going to fall on the side of quality content regardless of its payment structure. Sometimes it cannot be avoided that a good story is published on a pay site. When I choose a pay site I try and choose those to which many are widely subscribed to minimize paying for content you otherwise would not read.

Last, as a content creator myself, including author of multiple books, I largely am not sympathetic to the "content must always be free argument." It is our responsibility as content creators to provide benefit in excess of costs, and charging a bit for that allows us to create content we could not otherwise create. I believe this model benefits both parties in the transaction.

Yours, in service,

Jason