BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoFrance Is Headed Towards Its Most Feral Right-Wing Regime Since the Naziswww.thedailybeast.comexternal-linkmessage-square164fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareObinice@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days ago Why would anyone pay for viewing a website? Or to put it another way, Why would anyone pay for using a service that costs money to provide?
minus-squarechalupapocalypse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoWe were spoiled when the web started, but now that ad revenue has dried up, someone has to pay for hosting and content creators to eat. I’m not a fan of giving every website $5 a month, there has to be a better way.
minus-squareFordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoI think the Brits have it right with BBC. It’s not perfect but everyone pays a tiny bit and it funds news and dedicated programming What we really need is to reinstate the Fairness Doctorine and stare straight at fox
minus-squarezabadoh@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoThat’s what NPR and PBS were supposed to be, but they’re so perpetually underfunded that they’re almost commercial stations. Some public stations have been taken over by right wing orgs that came in with massive funding. Gift link to SF Chronicle article archived version
minus-squareFordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoThis is where we got MSG round brown Ross and his happy little mountains after he stoped yelling, never stopped being an American veteran How you gonna attack happy little mountain brushes?
minus-squarezabadoh@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoBob Ross’ show ended 30 years ago, and PBS and NPR funding has declined even more as a proportion of operating costs since then.
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoAdvertisers did it to themselves. Pop ups, pop unders, loud autoplay, focus stealing, taking up ungodly amounts of screen real estate, etc, etc.
Or to put it another way,
Why would anyone pay for using a service that costs money to provide?
We were spoiled when the web started, but now that ad revenue has dried up, someone has to pay for hosting and content creators to eat.
I’m not a fan of giving every website $5 a month, there has to be a better way.
I think the Brits have it right with BBC. It’s not perfect but everyone pays a tiny bit and it funds news and dedicated programming
What we really need is to reinstate the Fairness Doctorine and stare straight at fox
That’s what NPR and PBS were supposed to be, but they’re so perpetually underfunded that they’re almost commercial stations.
Some public stations have been taken over by right wing orgs that came in with massive funding.
Gift link to SF Chronicle article
archived version
This is where we got MSG round brown Ross and his happy little mountains after he stoped yelling, never stopped being an American veteran
How you gonna attack happy little mountain brushes?
Bob Ross’ show ended 30 years ago, and PBS and NPR funding has declined even more as a proportion of operating costs since then.
Advertisers did it to themselves.
Pop ups, pop unders, loud autoplay, focus stealing, taking up ungodly amounts of screen real estate, etc, etc.