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...just imagine if they were all doing something productive instead.
Props to @[email protected] for helping to discourage their parasitic behavior and ushering them toward career paths that might actually utilize their potential in a positive way!
Alright so journalists and reviewers can fuck off, then?
Journalists don't make money from advertising revenue. Reviewers can fuck off.
Actually, since the Internet began to be public domain, physical newspapers has lower and lower sales. Since people can find the news online. This is one reason behind ads online.
Today, many local areas have nobody that works as a journalist, no local news=local politicians can do whatever they want without anybody question them.
So, what do you prefer? A community that has journalists asking the tough questions, digging for dirt or a community where corruption can flow free?
Support your local newspaper/news station with a subscription and use adblock.
Actually I personally believe that public funded media is vastly better than independent. Private media has prudent itself incapable of being anything other than corporate / conservative shills.
There are no more local newspapers or stations for all practical purposes. 70% of the UK's "local" news media (print or broadcast) are owned by four media conglomerates. Most "local" television media in the USA is owned by the (right wing asshole collection) Sinclair Broadcast Group or (fellow right wing asshole collection) Rosebud Media. About 2/3 of "local" newspapers in the USA aren't locally-owned or operated and don't hire local reporters. Of these, about half are owned by 25 companies (themselves part of larger conglomerates in twisted, difficult-to-unravel relationships).
So it's kind of difficult to support your local newspaper/station. Because it's a unicorn for most people.
I want to agree but I live in a place with a popular local newspaper that moved online and it's still corrupt as ever here.