• foggy@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    We need news outlets to be tax funded and not advertiser funded so they can report factual news instead of trying to keep eyeballs on the screen.

    It’s truly bonkers the way we get news these days. Journalism is dying, and it sadly needs more than unions to survive.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      22 hours ago

      Yeah, the ad dollars all went to Facebook and Instagram, since they’re better-able to deliver the kind of targeting that advertisers want, so most local news stopped being financially viable.

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    21 hours ago

    Not letting billionaires own every single media outlet would be a good step