• @FanciestPants@lemmy.world
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          48 months ago

          I definitely appreciate the cheats around paywalls and mostly avoid pay walled sites myself, but I do occasionally hope that there are enough patrons of the people reporting the news to ensure that we’re not just seeing the stories that one or two rich-ass benefactors (exagerated of course) are paying to see on their platforms.

          • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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            38 months ago

            I do occasionally hope that there are enough patrons of the people reporting the news to ensure that we’re not just seeing the stories that one or two rich-ass benefactors (exagerated of course) are paying to see on their platforms.

            Do you understand the history of newspapers? They were more biased in the past. William Randolph Hearst supposedly said: “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”

            And those biases weren’t as obvious. At least now you can easily compare and read stories from different papers on the same subject.