I honestly don't want to clip quotes because you need to read the whole thing. And props to the post for doing this.
I'll post the opening
Look at the byline!!
I'll post the opening
Look at the byline!!
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Washington Post releases blockbuster story about January 6
- Thread starter Senator Toadstool
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iirc theres a paywall avoider site but i don't know the url though
Nothing would happen regardless.
Republicans attempted a coup and no one cares.
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At the same time, reporters don't work for free. Unfortunately, the internet has made everyone expect free everything.
I think the problem here is that informative pieces like this NEED to be available to the public, but aren't, while conservative claptrap is available EVERYWHERE for nothing.
If you turn off JavaScript, you may be able to bypass the paywall notification and read the article.
I would like to be wrong. Hopefully more and more important information comes out about this.
Also, it is kind of sad to see Era members expecting journalism to be free.
It's convenient that their bothsides-ing OP-EDs are mostly free.
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They had 230 sources they earned there bank. Not faulting them for locking this
Thanks for the summary.
Based on this, I don't really see how this is a blockbuster story. It's more specifics about what we already knew: Trump was stoking this fire up to and during the insurrection, and multiple systems of protection and intelligence failed to stop this telegraphed attack.
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I didn't realize it was locked (subscriber) but it gets deep in the weeds and very good reporting
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Should people work for free? Do people not remember having to pay for a daily edition?
The WaPo can pay their reporters without charging people for access to important information that NEEDS to be disseminated.
Meanwhile on FB: Meet the Patriots of 01/06! Have you heard of the Lizard chomos?
Every day these people are not held responsible is a day closer to the death of Democracy in the US. The groundwork is being laid as we speak.
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs
<p>The political economy of bullshit.</p>
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I get that and don't think your wrong. I expect lots will get pulled
The thread title and OP provides zero context as to what makes this story a blockbuster.
And no, critical information should never be paywalled.
I read it and there doesn't seem to be much new besides the fact that officials received numerous warnings, messages, etc., from across the information spectrum that something was going happen on Jan 6th WEEKS prior and chose not to do anything due to incompetence and/or miscommunication.
Though, it was interesting to find out that one of the reasons the national guard wasn't deployed IMMEDIATLY was because Christopher C. Miller wanted to avoid a "Boston Massacre"-type situation if Trump supporters decided to bait them into a conflict.
Though, it was interesting to find out that one of the reasons the national guard wasn't deployed IMMEDIATLY was because Christopher C. Miller wanted to avoid a "Boston Massacre"-type situation if Trump supporters decided to bait them into a conflict.
I don't see a byline at all? Front page only says "Washington Post staff" and it must be staring me in the face in the article itself...
But also people should support good reporting monetarily.
Should news be only given to those that can afford to pay and restricted it to those who can't? Doesn't seem like a good idea as we've seen so far.
I'd rather read something and make a donation later than pay money up front just to see if it's worth my time, honestly.
Again, the problem here is that ACCESS to vital information is being locked behind paywalls while stuff that literally destroys democracy is available to everyone for free for very little effort.
The number of layoffs in the news industry over the last decade indicates otherwise.
And yet Fox News, Breitbart and all the right-wing news sources seem to be doing fine. We all know there are blatant problems with the way journalism functions in the country, but realistically information like this needs to be available to the public. If fascists are giving lies away for free, the only way to counter that is giving the truth away for free as well.
Like if I read an article, I don't want to tell my friends "hey I read this really great article yeah yeah you gotta pay ten bucks to read it too though" - I want them to be able to see it immediately. These barriers are preventing critical information from reaching the public.
Yeah, paywall kills this in its sleep. Imagine trying to get this to people who don't already think this was serious.
Meanwhile, fake news is free. People should absolutely get paid for their work. At the same time, think of it like food - healthy food is inaccessible and expensive while fast food is easily available.
What happens? People eat fast food more.
Meanwhile, fake news is free. People should absolutely get paid for their work. At the same time, think of it like food - healthy food is inaccessible and expensive while fast food is easily available.
What happens? People eat fast food more.
While I agree, places like this need money to function and make the reporting happen in the first place. The information becomes free/accessible as other outlets report on the reporting. I.e., interviews on NPR and the like.
Do the people justifying hiding critically important news stories behind paywalls also accept cable news channels focusing on ratings over everything else, since they need to pay their reporters and anchors using ad revenue? Or is that different somehow.
To clarify, I don't have an issue with newspapers hiding articles behind paywalls, but exceptions should be made for things that are of the highest importance to the public (such as this, and major news about COVID)
To clarify, I don't have an issue with newspapers hiding articles behind paywalls, but exceptions should be made for things that are of the highest importance to the public (such as this, and major news about COVID)
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That is an interesting analogy, since we wouldn't blame healthy food producers for high prices, for that we need policy change to subsidize healthier food.
And yet, you really wouldn't want the government getting involved in journalism so it's quite a tough situation. Not sure what the solution is
You're just not engaging with the literal reality at play here, which is that it doesn't matter what you think "needs" to happen if the macroeconomic preconditions make it infeasible. You're appealing to a philosophical principle of necessity that you hold as a consumer and acting like that's sufficient to overcome the bottom line for the producer, but ain't nobody in accounting cares about that.
News costs money to product, lies don't. Find a way to fix that inequality and you'll solve the problem. But saying they should model their business as if it doesn't cost money anyway is just delusional.
Have fun having nobody read this article, then, while more right-wing lies weaken the impact of the ATTEMPTED COUP.
Because that is what's happening. We're almost a year out from the coup now and nobody gives a shit, because information that would actually help people understand it dies behind paywalls.
Also this. Bezos can spare some money to keep the news running.
Right. That's a big difficulty. You could say that something like blanket UBI would allow people to do this kind of work without starving, but that's bare minimum.
Other than that, you'd have to rely on something like donations.
No offense to you OP, but most of the info in this article has already been publicized. Here's the gist
-Trump and the GOP's election lies caused the riot
-Trump aggravated the mob during his speech
-Multiple government departments warned of the danger
-Capital Police were not prepared at all
-Several rioters seemed to have intimate knowledge of the building
-After the attack, many GOP politicians still continued spreading lies.
-Trump and the GOP's election lies caused the riot
-Trump aggravated the mob during his speech
-Multiple government departments warned of the danger
-Capital Police were not prepared at all
-Several rioters seemed to have intimate knowledge of the building
-After the attack, many GOP politicians still continued spreading lies.
People deserve a living wage and different companies take different approaches to paying their employees. If Fox and CNN make money by publishing shit alarmist news stories, then whatever, I get no value from them so I won't watch. If WaPo, WSJ, NYT, etc pay salaries through pay walls, I find a lot of value from their reporting so I'll pay (at least NYT & WaPo). The real disconnect with paying for news is people have gotten used to getting news without paying, or with paying via alternative methods (shit ads, selling your privacy, etc) and so when good reporters ask for money for good work many people feel righteously indignant that they're being asked to pay money for something, when they'd prefer the reporter, editor, copywriter, etc work for free.
For what it's worth, this article is good, but it's not critically important imo. Most of the information I've read is reported elsewhere, but this has been collected in a visually appealing way and is very comprehensive. But as best I can tell there's no fresh details of reporting that I haven't seen elsewhere.