Comment on the internet is worse.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months agoBut do paywalls actually encourage people to pay? I would point out that NPR/PBS and The Guardian are at least partially funded by the people but still offer news for free and it seems to work.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 8 months ago
NPR is funded by underwriters, donors, government grants, and licensing their content to affiliate stations. It’s actually really interesting to see how they’ve cobbled it together.
Point being there are a lot of ways to fund things!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My point is they don’t have to rely on paywalls. And I don’t know about The Guardian, but NPR isn’t trying to make a profit, which is probably part of it. Anyway, I use it for a lot of my news. It’s not wholly impartial, but it tries a lot harder than most American news outlets.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 8 months ago
I’m just saying there are a lot of ways to make it work!