Re:Why micropayments will never be a thing in journalism
by mc32 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:06PM
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By the looks of it, some countries are moving towards state sponsored journalism which serves as propaganda and also dissemination of narrative and when itβs not state sponsored the government imposes restrictions on press freedom (speech). We saw this with Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2 and related coverage.
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Re:Why micropayments will never be a thing in journalism
by easytiger on Friday June 19, 2020 @07:14AM
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Indeed. All very worrying.
The opposition party in the UK proposed two things before the last election.
State controlled social network [1]
"Democratisation" of major media where the editorial policy is set by activists [2]
1. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/23/corbyn-prop...
2. https://www.ft.com/content/555f2012-a6b5-11e8-926a-7342fe5e1...
Pretty much as evil as it gets in the modern age