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Sure, this entire business model has been cataclysmic for traditional media organizations and news outlets and peoples trust in institutions has plummeted in co
by FuckButtons 1y ago
Sure, this entire business model has been cataclysmic for traditional media organizations and news outlets and peoples trust in institutions has plummeted in correlation, so, let’s just fucking scrap it and go back to payed media.
- geoffpado 1y ago"Traditional media organizations" have been primarily funded by advertising longer than anyone on HN has been alive.
- saagarjha 1y agoSome of them; perhaps even a vast majority. But this isn't the only option nor do we have to continue for it to be so.
- _Algernon_ 1y agoManufacturing consent identified advertisement as one of its five filters and was published in 1988. It is and was extremely rare for a magazine or news paper to not be at least partially funded by advertisements.