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Substack? Independent journalism? Pay-what-you-want? Donation-funded publications? I'm not saying I have a solution, just that that's "ads" are bad place to start. I certainly read plenty of non-advertisement-based coverage.

Good news costs money, and the poor get propagandized to.

I'm not even sure how the NyTimes justifies this with their massive subscription revenue. They probably just expect people to suck it up, despite greatly lowering the value of their product.

Anyway, Manufacturing Consent came out almost 40 years ago and we're still stuck in the same place if you only look at cable news, newspapers, and radio. Hell even NPR pimps themselves to the nearest think-tanks and corporations (despite a reputation for delivering unbiased coverage from the perspective of liberals)—during the iraq war people with little subtlety referred to them as "national petroleum radio".