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[–] sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago (12 children)

If you don't pay to get your news, someone else does, and that someone might not have the same interests as you do.

Support media initiatives that are funded exclusively by the people, not by the state or the oligarchs.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (11 children)

you think you would get anything else if you do pay? honest question. what incentive is there for "individually funded media" to report anything better? In fact, why would they NOT sensationalize stuff? it leads to better sales and a stronger reader retention.

it's not the solution you think it is, your best bet is to go to news aggregators like ground news and even that isn't a 100% solution.

[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You might be missing the point of the OP, your news aggregators is an aggregation of a story you're being told.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

you do realize that there are other news sources like DW or AZ who do publish counter to the big cooperate news outlets as well?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cool. Which one of those has the information about politics and laws and other news in my state that I should be paying attention to?

Because right now, as far as I can tell, it's either state public media or one of the corporations.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they both have reporters around the world in unlikely places, go check them out yourself

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They don't have them in Indiana. And they certainly don't have any reporting regularly on state issues.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

did you actually look? or are you just assuming? because they both have an India branch

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Indiana. Not India

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

DW or AZ

You might want to spell those out. I follow a lot of indie journalists and I have no idea what these stand for.

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