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[–] dan@upvote.au 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This is why so many people are misinformed. Good journalism is paywalled while things like Fox News, Newsmax and Sky News aren't.

Journalists do need to get paid though, and not everyone is okay with ads. People expect too much for free.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Journalists should be funded by the public, as they perform a public service, while simultaneously they should not be required to report favorably upon the state. We just fail to do so because it's more profitable for the old money that own the current media empires (and Larry Ellison), with the added benefit that the general public are treated like mushrooms -- feed them shit and keep them in the dark.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

Journalists should be funded by the public, as they perform a public service, while simultaneously they should not be required to report favorably upon the state.

And that's the crux of the issue, isn't it? You can't let corpos piss all over journalism to turn it yellow, and you can't let a state-run press dictate the citizen's world view.

Information wants to be free, and that's realistically the only way it can work.