And other stories from eight years running The Washington Post
        • EvilBit@lemmy.world
          9·
          2 years ago

          Internet news isn’t free; you’re just not paying money. You’re paying for it in privacy and advertising. Just like how Google and Gmail aren’t free services either. You pay for your “free” email somewhere in the 8,000 page EULA, so the vast majority of users literally don’t know the cost of the product they receive. It’s the ignorance economy.

      • uis@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        Once you got newspaper, you could keep it and share with everyone. DMCA forbids it.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 years ago

    Only got the first paragraph because of the paywall but:

    That month, the newspaper aired a one-minute Super Bowl ad, with a voice-over by Tom Hanks, championing the role of a free press, commemorating journalists killed and captured, and concluding with the Post’s logo and the message “Democracy dies in darkness.” The ad highlighted the strong and often courageous work done by journalists at the Post and elsewhere—including by Fox News’s Bret Baier—because we were striving to signal that this wasn’t just about us and wasn’t a political statement.

    Is just too on-the-nose “both sides” to avoid calling out. Strong-and-often-courageous-Fox-News can get stuffed. As can the billionaire’s paywall.

    2016 motherf****ers! Do you speak it?!