When is a paywall not a paywall? The FT explains

FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw feels that the language of paying for content on the web is skewing the debate . "It's always put into pejorative terms. It doesn't happen to any other product: you don't talk about restaurants giving people a bad user experience by giving them a bill at the end of it. It's understood that something has been produced and it needs to be paid for; somehow with news content it has become a totally different argument. "We're not a charity, we're a company with shareholders: there's nothing free about the information we produce – our editorial operation costs millions of pounds to run and we don't see it's odd to put a price on it. In fact, it's probably the only way to run a reasonable business." Source: journalism.co.uk