Would this mean free news for all residents and citizens and journalist get paid for consumption?
Comment on Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry. It's hard, but we should leave it be
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 9 months ago
All of the news where I live is paywalled.
Why should Facebook pay for content that users cannot even access? Surely anyone who is actually paying for access isn’t finding articles from Facebook - they are getting the news directly from the source.
The only content that isn’t paywalled is from ABC, but their definition of “local” news is national news which happens to be a story about something that happened here. Usually reported on so poorly it’s obvious the person lives a few thousand kilometres away and doesn’t really understand the issue at all.
arran4@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 9 months ago
I really love the Medicare-esque model idea. It leaves room for journalists to be creative in their approaches, while demanding a minimum level of competency in their reporting. This of course would mean those shaded truths would probably still have to be passed, but the outright lies will be squashed. It also means journalists policing journalists, alla ‘media watch’ are also included in the funding model.