• •••@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Universal access, as in everyone need to pay 8 dollars a month for the privilege.

    • espentan@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I still dont get why people can’t just work for for free! Greedy bastards.

      Especially publishers. It’s not like they play an important role in modern society, at all. They can do research, perform interviews and write stories during the day, and then, if they absolutely need food and a friggin’ roof over their heads, they can work at McDonald’s or something in the evenings.

      /s

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        1 year ago

        News agency should’ve been operated by non-profit organizations IMO. The non-profit organizations can be funded by grants, donations, etc (e.g. like how wikimedia is funded).

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            1 year ago

            Probably not the best idea though for independent journalism. My country had a publicly funded news agency and it was notorious for never reporting any bad thing the government did.

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          1 year ago

          Well I’m glad we all agree that “universal access” always has a cost, so unless you want to nationalize the press I’m not sure what y’all want.

          Maybe we can just leave them a profit driven third party that you are legally required to support with your taxes? Seems like praxis to me, no problems with that at all.