I feel conflicted about this because I know journalism is in a rough spot, but I also hate the online ads so much. Usually I’d say this would be a nudge to force them to change course, but given the media’s in such dire straits, I’m not so sure this time.
@ordinal Yeah, FT has a strict paywall — and that's part of the reason why it’s able to produce good journalism at a time when so many other pubs at doing layoffs.
we have to find a way to automatically directly donate, a percentage of an amount we each set per month, per article read or video watched or stream/song/podcast listened to.
@wjmaggos I don’t actually think that’s a solution, and requires setting up a massive convoluted new infrastructure. I actually think it’s a mix of direct subscription and public funding, in part funded by taxes of digital advertising revenue.
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That would be a good solution. I've also thought about the government assigning all taxpayers a certain number of credits that they could each assign to their media source of choice.
I could tell you about the current government programmes in Canada to support the media if you're curious — they're not working very well, in my opinion.
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