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Pre-internet, everyone had to pay for access to information… how is that different from what’s happening online now? Maybe it was a uniquely open time and we a
by pantojax45 4y ago
Pre-internet, everyone had to pay for access to information… how is that different from what’s happening online now?
Maybe it was a uniquely open time and we are reverting to what it was like in the past?
- o-o- 4y agoI think it's worse. Pre-internet, people paid for access to the same information, information written by journalists, distributed by a select number of papers. Today, and perhaps worse going forward, this is reversed: a select number of persons pay for access to journalistic quality. The rest consume what the market hands to them, for whatever underlying reason.