How is the publisher supposed to fund their operations let along make a profit. How about a 1 year lock on the archive pages. There are many ways of keeping that record but not taking views undermining the business model
> How is the publisher supposed to fund their operations let along make a profit.
There used to be plenty newspapers sponsored by wealthy industrialists; the latter would cover the former's gaps between the costs and the sales, the former would regularly push the latter's political agenda.
The "objective journalism" is really quite a late invention IIRC, about the times of WW2.
"To give the news impartially, without fear or favor." — Adolph Ochs, 1858-1935
Objectivity is the default state of honest storytelling. If I ask what happened ? and somebody only tells the parts that suit an agenda, they have not informed me. The partisan press exists, because someone has a motive to deviate from the natural expectation of fair story telling and story recounting.
It's a great question, but they didn't seem to have a problem with this before AI, so I have to assume that the presence of a free available copy wasn't really impacting their revenue.
If an independent press is critical to open societies, perhaps some sort of citizen directed funding is needed to maintain independence from both capital and government?
Maybe it would be better if these news operations had to find better ways to sustain themselves than the current paradigms. Also, the internet archive is not the only archive, and there will be more. This ins't something they can really stop.
bawolff|15 days ago
I kind of doubt that internet archive is really taking very much business away from them. Its a terrible UI to read the daily news.
8organicbits|15 days ago
> We ask that you grant LWN exclusive rights to publish your work during the LWN subscription period - currently up to two weeks after publication.
News is valuable when it is timely, and subscribers pay for immediate access.
https://lwn.net/op/AuthorGuide.lwn
Joker_vD|15 days ago
There used to be plenty newspapers sponsored by wealthy industrialists; the latter would cover the former's gaps between the costs and the sales, the former would regularly push the latter's political agenda.
The "objective journalism" is really quite a late invention IIRC, about the times of WW2.
belter|15 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalistic_objectivity
"To give the news impartially, without fear or favor." — Adolph Ochs, 1858-1935
Objectivity is the default state of honest storytelling. If I ask what happened ? and somebody only tells the parts that suit an agenda, they have not informed me. The partisan press exists, because someone has a motive to deviate from the natural expectation of fair story telling and story recounting.
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