• sepi@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    The people don’t pay the press. The oligarchs captured the press, and now when the press reports what concerns the people, the oligarchs punish them. Part of this started cos we stopped paying the press. This is why I have a couple of newspaper subscriptions. More people should, so we can pay the press to report what concerns us.

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      5 days ago

      Well I pay for good press, but it needs to be good for me to pay for it.

      I have a feeling that was happening with the press regardless of subscription, but you raise a point

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        5 days ago

        “Well I pay for good press” <- does your use of the expression mean that you will only pay if you find good press, and are therefore not paying for press because you don’t find it up to your standards?

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          5 days ago

          I don’t pay for it unless it’s up to my standards

          Like anything else I decide to pay for or subscribe to

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              5 days ago

              Yeah I just said I did

              Yes I subscribe to a news source

              Not that I agree with your point totally, I think subversion of news sources was inevitable anyway but yes, for what it’s worth I subscribe to a news source