• Mr. Wobble@thelemmy.club
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    11 hours ago

    Because journalism is an ongoing profession where people regularly receive money for their work, producing a publication has a lot of costs, and 2g1c is a single fake scat porn clip filmed ages ago.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Let’s rephrase the question: “is it cheaper to find and view that popular video from 20 years ago than a single news article the NY Times released 20 years ago?”

    Otherwise, you’re comparing a current events media platform to a once-popular video hosted everywhere.

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      I sometimes wonder what became of them. I like to think they finally bought a second cup so they didn’t have to share anymore.

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        It’s still expensive to run an ongoing news organisation, unlike a janky old video from decades ago.

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          So what you’re saying is, we need new 2G1C content regularly, and with a higher production quality

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