I come from an era when free news was the BBC news broadcast on the radio. Some had TVs but the same applied more or less. Otherwise you bought a newspaper.<p>I am also getting Samuel Pepys diary from 1660 in my daily feed, who had news only through his contacts.[1]<p>If free news is a right, it is new thing, and maybe not a permanent thing.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/06/13/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/06/13/</a>
News: nytimes publishes advertisment for nytimes saying that "if you don't pay us then you aren't getting real news".<p>Conflict of interest perhaps?<p>Personally, I find all newpapers very one sided, so I just read hundreds of unrelated sites and call that my news.
It's not a good sign that capitalism is creeping into journalism.<p>When the flow of money gets to decide what your ink writes, the doom is already upon you. Now, there are those who proclaim that they get funding through crowdsourcing and don't accept money from corporate or politicians. But eventually, even they will be forced to bow down before the "path of least resistance" narrative for going against the populist opinion will bring down their revenues which they highly depend on.