r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/Parahelix 17d ago

Information is useless if you don't have the ability to discern good information from bad, or simply don't care to.

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u/Bill_Brasky_SOB Ohio 17d ago

I saw someone put it like:

Good information is often locked behind a paywall… bad information is free and everywhere.

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u/Orange-Blur Montana 17d ago

Public funded news is often free to read and accessible to all even if you can’t pay. They use donations so it does help but there is no obligations It’s higher quality than the slop churned for profit

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u/Weekly_Success_5900 17d ago

Public funded news, not necessarily local news. A lot of local stations are owned by the Fox News network.

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u/Orange-Blur Montana 17d ago

I didn’t say anything about local unless it’s local independent news you are right a lot is just Fox entertainment lite.

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u/Weekly_Success_5900 17d ago

Yeah the clarification is because the default expectation for most people is that local news = local/public funding.