• BurtReynoldsMustache@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Journalism should be accessible to everyone. Not many people can afford 30 different subscriptions for every individual news outlet because they’re all pay to read. Remember newspapers? Anyone could buy one on the cheap, now these fuckers have moved to a subscription service that’s even more expensive than the average newspaper used to be.

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      1 year ago

      Well there are 3 alternatives.

      Ads, which everyone on here would endorse blocking, so that’s out.

      All journalism becomes volunteer work, running off of optional donations, which seems unlikely :D

      Or all journalism becomes publicly funded via-taxes. This is probably the optimal option but I think most people would agree that ALL journalism being government funded has a ton of risks.

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        1 year ago

        If I have to pay for it:

        • it cannot be sensationalized. It cannot even veer mildly from the found facts.
        • it cannot be filled with agenda bias
        • it cannot hold any false, non peer reviewed information
        • they have to pay their sources. And They have to pay their sources well. Especially the ones who are expected to uphold to peer reviews (science journalists, I’m looking at you)

        If there is a free one with ads:

        • ads cannot fabricate their facts either.

        Wanna regulate? Well. Then. Let’s regulate.