What was expensive to produce must be sold (expensively) I
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:25 am
Information has a cost, of course, and cannot be free. This cost was formerly shared between the reader (via the purchase of the newspaper and classified ads), advertisers and the State ( via press subsidies ).
With the emergence of free web competitors, classified ads no gambling data morocco longer bring in much, with some exceptions ( Schibsted and 20 minutes still earn a little money with leboncoin.fr for example).
As for advertisers, they mainly fill the pockets of Google and Facebook, which capture the bulk of advertising budgets .
The reader therefore finds himself alone having to pay for content co-financed yesterday by interested but generous patrons. Almost alone, because he is still indirectly helped by the State which allows the historic paper media to benefit from public subsidies in the name of pluralism of information.
This poses a major structural problem for readers and media outlets. Because few people have the means or the motivation to pay for content at its real production cost.
Especially in a context where there is a profusion of free content and where the price of verified, hierarchical, popularized information without distortion does not seem obvious to a majority of fellow citizens .
With the emergence of free web competitors, classified ads no gambling data morocco longer bring in much, with some exceptions ( Schibsted and 20 minutes still earn a little money with leboncoin.fr for example).
As for advertisers, they mainly fill the pockets of Google and Facebook, which capture the bulk of advertising budgets .
The reader therefore finds himself alone having to pay for content co-financed yesterday by interested but generous patrons. Almost alone, because he is still indirectly helped by the State which allows the historic paper media to benefit from public subsidies in the name of pluralism of information.
This poses a major structural problem for readers and media outlets. Because few people have the means or the motivation to pay for content at its real production cost.
Especially in a context where there is a profusion of free content and where the price of verified, hierarchical, popularized information without distortion does not seem obvious to a majority of fellow citizens .