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Paywall Article: For: What does David Simon mean by ‘slow suicide’?: By slow suicide Simon is referring to newspapers slowly losing business, but inflicting this upon themselves by providing cheap or free articles. Why does he mean by saying anti-paywall people “don’t understand the first thing about actual journalism”? This means people do not understand the effort and skills that needs to be involved when working as a Journalist. What does he mean by “journalism is a profession”? Simon is implying that Journalism should be considered and taken seriously as it is an actual job and ambition. And should be a paid job. What do you think made 1 million people pay for the NYT(New York Times)? It provides interesting content