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It’s inconvenient but why do we have the expectation that people will give away their work for free? Journalism is not easy and journalists currently don’t hav
by whatever1 5y ago
It’s inconvenient but why do we have the expectation that people will give away their work for free?
Journalism is not easy and journalists currently don’t have any other way to collect income other than publishing their work through a medium.
For some of us we afford to give away work for free because our universities (work=scientific publications) or our employer (work=open source software) pay for for it to be free for their own reasons and because they have the funding to do so.
We don’t want journalism to have questionable sources of funding, just so that we click open the stories more easily.
We want journalism to be profitable by direct funding from the consumers.
Ads was the unfortunate middle ground.
But taking Ads away will only push media towards getting funded by forces that exclusively want to control the media.
TLDR: pay your content creators even if it seems tedious to you
- andy_ppp 5y agoI pay for the content I think is important that it exists, but the web working is also important. If they are giving Google the content I see no issue with using that against them. It's up to them, either the content is private or public it can't be both.
- whatever1 5y agoThey are not giving to Google the content. Google does not consume the content, it advertises it. Google (or any search engine) don’t give an F about the work of a journalist. We do.
- luckylion 5y ago> But taking Ads away will only push media towards getting funded by forces that exclusively want to control the media. Don't you think it's a little late for that with Corporate Media?