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Re:Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as... by marcus_holmes on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @09:37PM (#48485231)
Democracy needs real journalism to function. Having all the rich people own all the journalists isn't going to end well. We need to find a working business model for journalism that doesn't rely on rich folks.
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Re:Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as... by al_borland on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @11:23PM (#48485877)
I think news outlets need to be run as a non-profit to remove the types of people with aspirations of wealth, instead of aspirations to report and inform the public, from the sector.
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Re:Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as... by marcus_holmes on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:17AM (#48486491)
Usually rich folks buy newsrooms not to make a profit, but to control the narrative.

No journalist joins a newsroom to become rich. Famous, maybe, but not rich.

The business model used to be advertising, but the internet destroyed that model. And we don't have a replacement, while democracy doesn't work without someone holding the politicians to account.

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