I know it can't be just me, but their sites really are just becoming unusable now whenever you click on an article. It's actually really shit how when you search for something on a search engine depending on the news source you click on almost any site and it's some god awful subscription pop up or even try to spam email pop ups to make you register to their website. A lot of these big tech and mainstream sites seem to be going this way.
The guardian's pretty hilarious with their e-begging messages which is interesting because I wonder if their traffic is starting to drop as people get sick of their neverending nonsense. If we got to see a ton of journalists getting laid off that would be hilarious.
Just a rant, because again as somebody who does actual research I find it extremely annoying having to sift through these shitty news sources because they keep getting bumped up in the algorithm even though you can't even read their articles half the time anymore. The worse offenders seem to be sites like the Telegraph and the Economist yet they clearly get search engine favouritism. It's also why I whine when people post up twitter links and expect me to sign up to that crap just to look at one post, no thanks.
The Free to view model is a huge reason the media become the malignant tumour we all know and loathe. It needs to be paid for somehow otherwise it just becomes a glorified blog, chasing what ever views are politically fashionable that millisecond. Of course , none of it is worth paying for right now, so we're kind of stuck in a catch 22.
I was going to say this as well, the "press is 100% active propaganda" started when news companies were collapsing because their revenue model disappeared.
Hard to resist paid propaganda or drama-posting when not doing it means the company going under.