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Information wants to be free, so it isn't worth paying journalists for the time to do this.
by afarrell 11y ago
Information wants to be free, so it isn't worth paying journalists for the time to do this.
- oblio 11y agoI hope you're ironic, because that statement doesn't make any sense.
- afarrell 11y agoTo state things explicitly: "It is commonly believed that 'information wants to be free, therefore I should not pay for it', and so people are opposed to paying for journalism. As a consequence, organizations that exist to do the sort of vetting that the parent talks about find it harder and harder to get revenue from that activity. Therefore, they not only have no incentive to pay people to do that, they in fact risk going bankrupt if they do that."