Nineteen staffers affected, according to Washington Post, with celebrated magazine to end newsstand sales

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    1 year ago

    I get what you’re saying but people shouldnt have to pay for such an important thing. Obviously news publications need money somehow but paying for news should never be required.

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        1 year ago

        If you wanted to treat news as so important that individuals don’t have to pay, you would use a Public Service broadcasting model, which treats news as a public good provided to everyone and funded through taxes.

        (someone so old they remember life before economic neoliberalism replies).

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          1 year ago

          People are shitting on Germans public broadcasting and its fee a lot and there have been a couple of actual scandals, but all in all the news and investigative pieces they produce are so important.

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      1 year ago

      A minimal payment for getting a thing like news seems absolutely reasonable. It was the case for hundreds of years, it requires money to produce…