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Comment on A lot of the laid-off staff from the Washington Post should start a news cooperative. Seriously!

Shuttering the big news orgs is a permanent damage. It further fractures the shared reality and we are all left in our private chambers, accurate or not

we are simply entering a new era where truth is an expensive and rare thing while hallucinated slop is force fed to almost everyone

Forming a cooperative would be great for their professional lives and maybe benefit a few subscribers but society has otherwise completely lost

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DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Does socialism provide solutions to truth being expensive and rare?

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- gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Truth is still expensive but if the public intelligently funds to uncover and disseminate it then at least it will be accessible
  
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spamfajitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve referred to this as the death of the expert, apparently there’s also a book similarly titled that covers the same concept.

I highly recommend anyone interested to look up Operation Mindfuck, how it worked and where some of the Discordians that took part ended up going later in their lives. I would also argue removing sources of authority like news organizations, or at least ruining their legitimacy, is a part of pushing the population towards chapel perilous.

As for the concerns about funding a news coop, I wonder if the relative success of Dropout tv would be a good model? The only other successful organization in an unsuccessful format I can think of is The Onion, but they had a major investor save them.

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