• TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    News++ is great but I don’t know if I’d subscribe to it outside of the fact it’s included in the bundle

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        1 month ago

        That’s why I stopped paying them for it. I still use it, I’ll still look at their ads. But not both.

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          1 month ago

          Yeah I only have it because of Apple One Sub, I definitely wouldn’t pay for it standalone

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          1 month ago

          NPR is not free; it’s paid for by taxes, which means that every U.S. citizen is in fact paying for news whether they like it or not. And “not for profit” is not the same as “no cost to the consumer.” In addition, most of the outlets for NPR are local public radio stations that are - you guessed it - funded by taxes (as well as fund drives).

          • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            obviously nothing is literally “free”, that’s a trivial point to make. operational funds have to come for somewhere. The point was there’s no additional cost to the reader (that they aren’t already paying for) to get news from those sources and they don’t depend on ad revenue or data monetization to make a profit.