You know what really grinds my gears?

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Since when is access to news a human right?

  But you have always needed to pay for news, well before the internet, either directly or indirectly

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  • Granixo@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created on December 10th, 1948.

    Here’s a link related to Article 19 (the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers):

    www.unesco.org/en/right-information

    And while you do have a point when it comes to pay for the news, i think there’s a clear distinction between paying for a paper newsletter or magazine (and also paying for Cable TV news why not), and having to pay for a small, individual article, no more than 2 pages long. (Because let’s be real, so far there are no news websites worth a paid subscription so far).

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    • nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It also describes a right to own property but I don’t think that anyone would argue that you should receive that property for free.

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• abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You want free news? You get ai generated articles which cover the basics… hopefully.

  You want good news? You have to pay.

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  • Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or you could go to npr and pbs. Public, free journalism

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    • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, my country also has decent public journalism channels

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  • ElmiHalt@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So… Which news website has good news again?

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    • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d say, a combination of publicly funded news sources, like bbc, pbs and reuters. Which are free sources, so that kindof disproves my point, but these do mostly cover the basics. Local news or news about stuff you’re interested in, is usually not covered there.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  News websites, most of which were and still are papers, have used sales and subscriptions to pay for journalists since they first bought printing presses. Ads have never been enough to keep them afloat.

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• Arrakis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You know what really grinds my gears?

  Entitlement.

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• ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You know what really grinds my gears?

  Someone not pushing the clutch all the way in when changing gear?

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  • Granixo@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    Oohhh whenever i hear something like that…

    The other driver has to change his route to the hospital 🏥

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  • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Me not easing off the pedals enough when changing gears on an internal hub bike… and then hearing the hub fully engage the new gear later on with crunching noises 🥴🥴

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• theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Most of them will just put up a soft-paywall, which are rather easy to get around. Sometimes as easy to keep clearing your cookies (or using an incognitio tab).

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  • Granixo@feddit.cl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That hasn’t been my case sadly :(

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    • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It depends on the site but there’s a few different ways to get around it. For example I didn’t even realize business insider had a paywall because somehow my AdBlock removes it. Some websites work with 12ft.io but lots block it now. If it’s one of the websites that give a limited amount of free articles open it in private browsing mode. And for others archive links seem to work.

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