Paywalling all content sucks, it just makes me leave the website. I pay for a news website from my country that gives me extra cool stuff like opinion articles and cultural highlights from my city, not because they paywall the basic news.

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bee_rider 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Somebody’s got to be paid to write the basic news articles. Maybe we could have a government funded “basic news” (although there are obvious concerns that that might turn into a propaganda service).

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eightysixfour 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We could call it the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and it could directly fund local news stations. It could be a hybrid public/non-profit where the government funds some, members stations fund some, and donations fund the rest.

Member stations could be responsible for more local content and be a part of a network that syndicates content from other stations.

It could cover more than just news though - children's programming, think pieces, deeper dives into government.

Man, that would be great.

Edit: Sorry, didn’t mean this to be as sarcastic towards you OP, more annoyed we defunded it last year.

	▲	bee_rider 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Edit: Sorry, didn’t mean this to be as sarcastic towards you OP, more annoyed we defunded it last year. That’s ok I was already doing the whole “obliquely reference things that already exist in the abstract as if they were a novel idea” bit; you doubling down on it kind of makes it better.

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hootz 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They do get paid, they are employees and get a salary. I pay for the premium plan and that funds the company.

	▲	rcMgD2BwE72F 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Too bad the new Kagi settings does not support allowing some paywalled domains to show up.