America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow
America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow
Unchecked overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a data investigation by the New York Times revealed, threatening millions of people and America’s status as a food superpower.
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Paywall.
https://archive.is/VjQuZ has the text. Even better, the beginning, which I presume to be one of these terrible scroll-to-advance animated presentations, has the animation removed.
I mean, data visualizations are important and personally I think they contribute to the article by showing aquifer depletion over time, but do you.
Also, I've never really appreciated the incessant need to whine about paywalls [edit: sorry, not directly addressed to you, I know you just provided a link]. Journalists and editors shouldn't have to work for free or depend solely on ad revenue. I understand if you can't afford it, but journalism is a job that already doesn't pay very well. I assume you'd also like to get paid for your work.
If you insist on keeping the paywall then posting news and inviting other peoples' opinions without allowing them access to the link is bad form, no?
The news is accessible, just not for free. Doesn't stop it being good original reporting that should be shared. NYT does provide a limited number of free articles per month. If we only read and share free articles, then we'd miss out on a lot of very solid reporting or even miss the point of the reporting.
For example, earlier this month someone shared a free article that analyzed the NYT's reporting on near-miss aircraft collisions at airports. Most people dismissed the article since the planes were missing by pretty large margins, but that's because the actual story reported in the original article concerned overworked and understaffed air traffic controllers. The planes coming too close to each other is a byproduct of that, but that's what people on Lemmy focused on because the secondary, free source, chose to focus on that more sensational topic.
None of this addresses the point:
Don't share a pay walled article if you want discussion on it, the majority aren't going to pay for it just to discuss it
Then why comment at all?
I'm not sharing it to discuss it. I'm sharing it to share the information contained within it and it's worth reading in its entirety. The discussion is a byproduct of the forum on which I share it.
[Sarcasm] Fuckin' poors wanting to know the news! You tell 'em!
Darkly apt and poetic.