Subj : Re: Family vs Politics - Did
To   : Arelor
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jan 16 2025 07:55 am

-=> Arelor wrote to neoshock <=-

 Ar> Well, TV and radio news are junk services and I think enough people
 Ar> knows that already. This begs the question: if you know regular
 Ar> mainstream news outlets are junk, where will you get your news from?

I want to find a nice independent news feed not run or owned by people
with a significant political bias. Is that still possible?

 Ar> Periodists made people look for stuff elsewhere. They lit this fire.
 Ar> Let them burn in it. The only regret is we still have no good news
 Ar> outlets.

We need to figure some way to make news pay. Newspapers got their start
when the classified ads subsidized news desks. Television news got the
airwaves for free with the requirement of having news.

What do we do in an environment where consumers expect everything for
free, and companies make billions off of people's content?

Jaron Lanier has some wide-eyed ideas regarding the internet. One I
liked was transferring the wealth of the web from the service owners to
the content creators through micropayments. Like a meme? Send the
creator a fraction of a penny. Like a work of art? Send them something.

It's awfully pie-in-the-sky optimistic and I don't see the social
network owners allowing something like that to threaten their revenue
systems. But it's nice to dream.

In a scenario like that, self-published or independent journalism would
thrive.





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