I started to notice some people posting NYT, Bloomberg or other websites with hard paywalls, that leads to people in the comments that are unable to read the article to discuess the headline without any analysis and some times spreading misinformation, which cannot be countered by the article, due to the paywall.

Which bring me to this: Why does no one thought about blocking hard paywalled articles for the sake of quality of discussion?

  • Tja
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    1 day ago

    For sure, but even the BBC has been under heavy criticism lately for some bias.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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      The BBC has always been under heavy criticism for bias, it’s inevitable given its role. But the point is that the bias is not structural: its journalists are not worried about losing their jobs if they offend the government or a billionaire owner. The BBC’s bias is the sum of the biases of the journalists, who tend to come from a certain section of society and see the world in certain predictable way. It’s quite hard to address that.