If We Spend $25K On A Photo Essay, Readers Should Pay to See It, Says Harper’s Publisher

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If We Spend $25K On A Photo Essay, Readers Should Pay to See It, Says Harper’s Publisher | PDNPulse

Harper’s publisher John R. MacArthur wrote a letter for the October issue of the magazine in which he took a strong stand against publishing free writing and photography on the web. He tackles the question of how journalism should be funded and distribute

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“It is unreasonable to expect that an advertiser would directly sponsor such daring photography,” MacArthur writes. “It is wishful thinking to believe that parasitic Google, now bloated with billions of dollars’ worth of what I consider pirated property, will ever willingly pay Harper’s, or Anonymous, anything at all for the right to distribute Anonymous’s pictures…”