If you wanted to treat news as so important that individuals don’t have to pay, you would use a Public Service broadcasting model, which treats news as a public good provided to everyone and funded through taxes.
(someone so old they remember life before economic neoliberalism replies).
People are shitting on Germans public broadcasting and its fee a lot and there have been a couple of actual scandals, but all in all the news and investigative pieces they produce are so important.
So how do you pay journalists, photographers, designers, editors? (an ex-journalist asks).
If you wanted to treat news as so important that individuals don’t have to pay, you would use a Public Service broadcasting model, which treats news as a public good provided to everyone and funded through taxes.
(someone so old they remember life before economic neoliberalism replies).
People are shitting on Germans public broadcasting and its fee a lot and there have been a couple of actual scandals, but all in all the news and investigative pieces they produce are so important.