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> funded by communities who have authentic interest in keeping them alive That's naive. Traditional media were always coopted to serve interests
by buboard 7y ago
> funded by communities who have authentic interest in keeping them alive
That's naive. Traditional media were always coopted to serve interests
- Barrin92 7y agoyes, traditional media is for the most part ad-funded and that's why it suffers from the same problem. There is plenty of non-traditional or local media that functions perfectly fine based on subscriptions. Diminishing or better destroying the ad model will be good for them.
- buboard 7y ago> traditional media is for the most part ad-funded Traditional media were often bankrupt , but kept alive for political influence. Subscripptions don't solve the problem, they only work for major publications , and they give them an incentive to coddle their hardcore audience , creating a bubble. If anything ad-supported media can afford to be more unbiased (but still 'safe' enough for their advertisers).