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National Geographic reportedly lays off its last staff writers
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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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.
So how do you pay journalists, photographers, designers, editors? (an ex-journalist asks).
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).
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.
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...