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tgv 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I guess you can't imagine a free, open democratic state with rule of law either. Because when broad, independent, quality journalism with a wide audience is gone, all you'll have to worry about is that poor cat in a tree in Ottawa.

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post-it 5 hours ago | parent [-]

This free, open democratic state with rule of law funds broad, independent, quality journalism from the public purse: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvxgl3n138o

	▲	tgv 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Until Farage becomes the PM. Then you'll find out what state funding means.
	▲	gzread 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		BBC is not independent high quality journalism, as we can see from how they cover Israel and Gaza and the corresponding UK protests.

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speedgoose 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I pay for some good quality news and the quality and the lack of native advertising is worth it.

	▲	sigmoid10 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Unfortunately that is almost never enough. If your competition is populist media financed by state-level/billionaire agendas, it is impossible to compete in the long term. We would need a complete and general ban on political financing across all media to sustain such a market.

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mentalgear 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I paid for TheGuardian because if we don't support truly independent, objective, investigative journalism, who will?

Certainly not Billionaires buying newspapers (e.g. Washington Post/Bezos, ...).

	▲	lyu07282 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> if we don't support truly independent, objective, investigative journalism, who will? Like Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Soros and countless other billionaires through their "charities"? https://theguardian.org/ Just because they are liberal and non-profit doesn't mean they are independent, that only appears this way if you only think in the narrow confines of the Overton Window between "conservative" and "liberal" of mainstream discourse.

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alt227 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Then how should the journalists that write about it get paid? I for one would rather pay for news than have to watch ad content for it instead.

	▲	clickety_clack 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s not so much about having to watch ads, it’s the incentive alignment towards what’s good for advertisers over what’s good for readers.