Maybe the Brits have something with the television tax. I have no idea how you apply it to the modern streaming world, but it’s an interesting alternative
You don’t even need license fees. NPR and PBS do terrific journalism and they frequently even make reports that make their corporate sponsors look bad while admitting that they are a corporate sponsor. They get a combination of corporate sponsorship funds, government grants and membership drives. And it works really well.
It’s too bad more people don’t realize that or they would become members of their local public radio/TV station and it would get even better.
I recently read that there are more libraries than fats food restaurants (in the US), so seems like libraries are doing just fine.
Information, like everything, costs money. If you don’t pay for journalism, someone will and they will control the information. That or garbage LLM generated sites riddled with malware.
Journalists are workers and deserve a living wage.
Yeah… we’re gonna need a source on that. In my small town there are zero libraries, and about 200 fast food joints. I’ve never lived in a city with more than a few libraries, and those with more than 1 are college towns.
Swamp creatures are scary and gross, but my real fear is paywalls: https://archive.is/uFqL7
Yes, God forbid journalists can pay their bills…
Maybe the Brits have something with the television tax. I have no idea how you apply it to the modern streaming world, but it’s an interesting alternative
You don’t even need license fees. NPR and PBS do terrific journalism and they frequently even make reports that make their corporate sponsors look bad while admitting that they are a corporate sponsor. They get a combination of corporate sponsorship funds, government grants and membership drives. And it works really well.
It’s too bad more people don’t realize that or they would become members of their local public radio/TV station and it would get even better.
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Libraries are free.
And underfunded and steadily becoming fewer in number. Information should be free regardless of its source.
I recently read that there are more libraries than fats food restaurants (in the US), so seems like libraries are doing just fine.
Information, like everything, costs money. If you don’t pay for journalism, someone will and they will control the information. That or garbage LLM generated sites riddled with malware.
Journalists are workers and deserve a living wage.
Yeah… we’re gonna need a source on that. In my small town there are zero libraries, and about 200 fast food joints. I’ve never lived in a city with more than a few libraries, and those with more than 1 are college towns.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/9s0x5c/til_there_are_more_libraries_than_mcdonalds_in/
Didn’t you say there are more fast food restaurants than libraries? Less than 10% of the fast food restaurants where I live are McDonald’s.
Recently read a reddit post from 6 years ago with a dead link but more than willing to cite it. Lmao
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Pay your bills.
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Libraries are free.
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