We’ve had a spate of mushroom related “events” in Australia. Seems to be centred around Melbourne.
Of course it’s entirely possible that nothing except reporting has changed, but that would mean that “journalists” do actual research, but that doesn’t pay for clicks, so who knows what reality is.
I’d love a package to get access to all sorts of news, but each news source seems individually subscription-based, and that all adds up. So I just stick with AP and BBC.
If I could pay like $25/mo and get access to all the popular news sources I’d do it.
That’s just the thing though. The “real” journalism people are missing now, used to cost more than 25$ a month for ONE newspaper subscription. And the printing isn’t the expensive part.
People aren’t ready to pay for that level of journalism anymore, so it doesn’t exist anymore.
The media is too centralised, owned by too few people with too much money and an agenda to run the world.
We were raised with the notion that information must be free, but forgot to figure out how to pay for food for the ones producing that information.
Once the rivers of gold (real-estate advertising and pages and pages of personal adverts) dried up, journalism was doomed and freedom of the press with it.
The closest we still have is public broadcasting, but that is being decimated by Neo Liberal claptrap beholden to interest groups.
If we don’t figure this out soon, democracy as we know it will vanish, if it isn’t too late already.
We’ve had a spate of mushroom related “events” in Australia. Seems to be centred around Melbourne.
Of course it’s entirely possible that nothing except reporting has changed, but that would mean that “journalists” do actual research, but that doesn’t pay for clicks, so who knows what reality is.
I miss real journalism
then pay for it.
I’d love a package to get access to all sorts of news, but each news source seems individually subscription-based, and that all adds up. So I just stick with AP and BBC.
If I could pay like $25/mo and get access to all the popular news sources I’d do it.
That’s just the thing though. The “real” journalism people are missing now, used to cost more than 25$ a month for ONE newspaper subscription. And the printing isn’t the expensive part.
People aren’t ready to pay for that level of journalism anymore, so it doesn’t exist anymore.
Yeah, that’s never going to happen.
The media is too centralised, owned by too few people with too much money and an agenda to run the world.
We were raised with the notion that information must be free, but forgot to figure out how to pay for food for the ones producing that information.
Once the rivers of gold (real-estate advertising and pages and pages of personal adverts) dried up, journalism was doomed and freedom of the press with it.
The closest we still have is public broadcasting, but that is being decimated by Neo Liberal claptrap beholden to interest groups.
If we don’t figure this out soon, democracy as we know it will vanish, if it isn’t too late already.