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Personally I like to support news with subscriptions. I do so across the political spectrum, both so I’ll be better informed and so we can have high quality new
by throwawaysea 6y ago
Personally I like to support news with subscriptions. I do so across the political spectrum, both so I’ll be better informed and so we can have high quality news from each worldview, free from bad incentives, instead of noise on all sides. So far, I’m not sure that subscription models have successfully prevented bias in either left or right leaning news media, so I’m not sure it’ll help here either. But it is probably worse to not have subscriptions at all and have either an unprofitable or ads dependent news industry. We’ve already seen how activist can campaign against advertisers and bias corporations in these last few years, and the same could happen to tenured that outlets like Reuters.
So even if it isn’t the whole solution, it may help in part, and for that I’ll subscribe and support it if they stay true to the sacred role of neutral journalism.
- RGamma 6y agoThere really needs to be some sort of 0-/1-click micropayment system for at least journalism (or better yet the web) to complement subscriptions. I think such things have been attempted unsuccessfully thus far :( It's simply not feasible for me to subscribe to every quality publication I see online for reading a few articles here and there. (Note that such a system could presumably be gamed and would need oversight, curation and responsible use.)