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WAPO "gift" articles now require signing up (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Gift articles previously were accessible just with the link. The latest article I attempted to read now requires me to first sign up

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Gifting someone a news article feels so dystopian

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I have some issues with WaPo's reporting at times, but honestly, how do we expect to fund quality journalism if we never pay for news?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Publicly funded news corporations with journalistic freedom would be nice

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

As much as I hate them, ads. The same newspapers have always made money. Along with the Wikipedia route of asking for donations

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I don't disagree, but ideally quality journalism should be treated as a public good, as it's, well, a source of information about the world, an extention of education, you could say

A lot of European countries have tax-supported independent news organizations

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We just read free fearmongering content on right wing extremist websites instead, duh

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

The right answer is through memes and 4chan

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

It's like back in the day gifting rout bought newspaper copy to someone else to read