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The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ (www.semafor.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hot take: Journalism is a public service and as such should be paid from our taxes, with checks and balances in place to prevent takeover by persons in power.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Tough to do, and do right, but I'm down. Still, until that day...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, that's why BBC, NPR, NHK, etc. exist. And the result is that in a lot of ways it is more reliable than for profit news, but at the same time they'll never really bite the hand that feeds (aka government, more specifically the Dems in NPR's case.)