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Originally Posted by rogerdraig
no i would now say real news is free
if you want made up and sensationalized stuff then that does cost as they have to employ the ( i would get banned for calling them what i think of them ) so called journalists to make it up.
the amazing story of the plane landing on the river and lately the meteor / meteorite show that you can get all the information you need from the various channels twitter ect with out resorting to paid for content
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CCTV of a plane crash or a flood of tweets about a meteorite can tell you that *something* has happened, but you need someone with experience and contacts to pull the story together. Those people need to be paid for their time.
If you want to live in a dumbed-down universe where all that matters is a couple of one liners and some grainy video footage, then that's fine, but the reality is, you are never going to know what's really going on in the world, or have access to enough information to decide for yourself, without paid journalists doing the legwork for you.