I hesitated to cancel my subscription to the LA Times because it does excellent reporting on some topics, including water issues (thanks largely to @ianjames) and bird flu in California. Yeah, its political stance is atrocious. But when it added AI use — even limited use — on top of this, I finally cancelled.
I don't like having to work around a paywall, but so it goes if I want to have my spending match my ethics. NYT, WaPo, Substack newsletters and The Guardian were cancelled long ago — The Guardian for its transphobic staff/pieces. Sigh.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/la-times-ai-opinion-rating
@jeridansky @ianjames I cancelled mine as well , but still read it occasionally fairly easily via library database.
@mtechman Yeah, I need to see what's available via my library. But most of the time one of five tactics works to circumvent a site's paywall.