Wonder how many online newspaper agencies started to implement a “You need to be a paid member to read the rest of this article” to profit from social platforms link aggregators…? Shouldn’t news of events happening around the world, no matter how chaotic they may, be free to access…?

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    14 days ago

    Shouldn’t news of events happening around the world, no matter how chaotic they may, be free to access…?

    If you want news of the quality of unpaid (probably AI) workers, then I suppose.

    Maybe you mean free at point of use, but then you’re talking about government funded journalism which is a whole ’nother problem

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    14 days ago

    Umm what about the people and infrastructure required to research, write and publish those stories?