People didn’t pay for news before the super rich controlled the media
where did people get all this free news from before? Internet blogs dont count as news…
Reputable news outlet revenue was always a mix of subscription and ads… i’m talking physical newspapets here… then with the internet, people stopped paying those subscriptions and news was funded by just ads, which wasnt sustainable… so now we have ads and billionaires funding the news.
i’m not sure what you mean “this is a new phenomena”… journalism has always cost money. It was never free/gratis.
If news was all pay news, it would create other intractable problems
Sure, i agree. I didnt say subscription was the best revenue model. You also have the guardian’s non-profit, or publicly funded media. But those have problems and biases too.
But surely all those models are better than what we have now
where did people get all this free news from before? Internet blogs dont count as news…
Reputable news outlet revenue was always a mix of subscription and ads… i’m talking physical newspapets here… then with the internet, people stopped paying those subscriptions and news was funded by just ads, which wasnt sustainable… so now we have ads and billionaires funding the news.
i’m not sure what you mean “this is a new phenomena”… journalism has always cost money. It was never free/gratis.
Sure, i agree. I didnt say subscription was the best revenue model. You also have the guardian’s non-profit, or publicly funded media. But those have problems and biases too.
But surely all those models are better than what we have now