Re:My Resignation from the Intercept
by mcv on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:39AM
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Yeah, honest journalism and capitalism are hard to combine. In capitalism, companies provide a service that their customers want to pay for. So a paid newspaper publishes news that their readers want to read. Ad-driven news writers what their advertisers want to be associated with. There's little room for reports that are controversial with the readers or advertisers, yet those reports might well be the most important ones.
Well, if they're true. But nobody pays for the truth anymore.
Re:My Resignation from the Intercept
by ece on Friday October 30, 2020 @11:01AM
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News readers can demand the truth either way (ad-funded, government-funded, corporation-funded, or reader-funded), and they're probably most likely to get it when they pay for it directly. It's the least worst way to get your news I'd say.
Well, if they're true. But nobody pays for the truth anymore.