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"Access this article for 1 day for: £50 / $60/ €56 (excludes VAT)" Man, the scientific publishing cartel is something else. Note that author will generally get
by azan_ 6mo ago
"Access this article for 1 day for: £50 / $60/ €56 (excludes VAT)"
Man, the scientific publishing cartel is something else. Note that author will generally get exactly £0 / $0 / €0 for his text.
- IChooseY0u 6mo ago[flagged]
- alt227 6mo agoThen how should the journalists that write about it get paid? I for one would rather pay for news than have to watch ad content for it instead.
- clickety_clack 6mo agoIt’s not so much about having to watch ads, it’s the incentive alignment towards what’s good for advertisers over what’s good for readers.
- speedgoose 6mo agoI pay for some good quality news and the quality and the lack of native advertising is worth it.
- sigmoid10 6mo agoUnfortunately that is almost never enough. If your competition is populist media financed by state-level/billionaire agendas, it is impossible to compete in the long term. We would need a complete and general ban on political financing across all media to sustain such a market.
- mentalgear 6mo agoI paid for TheGuardian because if we don't support truly independent, objective, investigative journalism, who will? Certainly not Billionaires buying newspapers (e.g. Washington Post/Bezos, ...).
- lyu07282 6mo ago> if we don't support truly independent, objective, investigative journalism, who will? Like Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Soros and countless other billionaires through their "charities"? https://theguardian.org/ https://theguardian.org/ Just because they are liberal and non-profit doesn't mean they are independent, that only appears this way if you only think in the narrow confines of the Overton Window between "conservative" and "liberal" of mainstream discourse.
- tgv 6mo agoI guess you can't imagine a free, open democratic state with rule of law either. Because when broad, independent, quality journalism with a wide audience is gone, all you'll have to worry about is that poor cat in a tree in Ottawa.
- post-it 6mo agoThis free, open democratic state with rule of law funds broad, independent, quality journalism from the public purse: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvxgl3n138o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvxgl3n138o
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