The book Manufacturing Consent has an excellent analysis of how advertising is one of the major filters which affect the content of news. Regardless of whether it is surveillance ads or not, the model of advertising, while lucrative, profoundly compromises the integrity of news.
Of course, I understand (and I believe the book also suggests) most news can’t be expected to self-sustain and compete without having ads in their economic model. So this isn’t a rebuttal to the article’s discussion on “Non-creepy” contextual ads.
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I have started trying to pay more for news access the last couple years. I don’t regret that decision. Its less than I pay for streaming television.
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The economist should arguably free given the ideological heavy lifting it performs.
I found this interesting: https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-98-the-refined-sociopathy-of-the-economist-4966767e1688
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This has the added benefit of holding the news organizations accountable to you, as you’re their main source of funding. If they start to go down a bad path, you can pack up and take your dollars somewhere else.
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