• Bazoogle@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    All news was behind a paywall at one point. If you did not pay for a newspaper, you did not get the news. No matter how important, the news was paywalled. We have the FDA for plain old recall announcements. If you want the news story behind the recall, a journalist has to research and write an article, which isn’t free. It’s also under attack by a certain orange man and his goons, so they need all the support they can get.

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      3 months ago

      Nah everybody who can read has always at least able to see the headlines as they walked by.

      Everything old is new again.

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        3 months ago

        Idk why you said nah, because we are saying the same thing. The headlines would be on display, just like they are now

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        3 months ago

        Well, I suppose they could still do that without really hurting business. You have to admit that the money lost from people physically waiting outside the building would be pretty minimal