Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself?

Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, it should be tax funded and overseen by an independent oversight group.

  I don’t know why this is such a difficult thing. Access to information is necessary for a healthy society. Things that are necessary for a healthy society but aren’t profitable should be tax funded, that’s the purpose of the taxes.

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  • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The Finnish version of Yle is the only news publisher I follow and it is tax payer fumded and ad free. It’s kind of a Finnish BBC. It’s not unbiased but broadly speaking their journalism is of quite high quality. It’s not of much use for people not from Finland but just an example that such thing can be done.

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• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Arrrr

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  • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This isn’t about how the consumer can get paid content for free but about how the creator can sustain the production of that content when hardly anyone is willing to pay for it.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah sure I know, I’m just fooling around. Personally I think music played on the radio (any radio, even your homemade amateur radio) should be paid for not by the radio but the government.

      Maybe news could be financed similarly. But with no strings attached of course.

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