soleil-moon-bye:

brainstatic:

parentheticalaside:

bogleech:

“Here’s an article about our thoughts on poverty and by the way we think you should pay money to read a glorified blog”

You should support journalism, yes.

Or are these people just supposed to write “glorified blogs” that you still somehow want to read for free? You expect to be paid for your labor, I assume, but not them?

For fuck’s sake. The entitlement people have towards journalism astounds me. You bitch and moan about ads, you bitch and moan about messages asking you to turn off your ad blockers, you bitch and moan about not getting unlimited articles for free, and you have the gall to demean the very coverage you want to access.

Journalism is labor which should be compensated. They have a skill which they’re trained for and they use that skill to survive. Consuming the labor of workers while giving them nothing in return doesn’t make you radical, it’s literally the Marxist definition of a ruling class parasite.

quick question op, why do you hate journalists and don’t want them to earn a living

also – they’re asking one dollar. that’s… beyond cheap for something that people took hours of their lives to do.