All media sucks right now. They all want you to pay, to subscribe.

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10. When all factual news is paywalled, lies, hate and conspiracy theories will spread for free.

The "digital divide" will grow into a moat with a 50 foot high wall.

People seem to have given up on an unbiased news source. They have been brainwashed by the right wing into thinking that fact is really a bunch of "radical communist lefty pinko lies". And now, CPB is torpedoed.

What's the cost of aggregating actual fact? Less reporters on the ground, very little.
If Wikipedia weren't spammed to hell, requiring constant moderation, it would be a good source, though "wikinews" still exists.
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
However, it's not on the firmest ground.

Wikimedia Foundation considers closing Wikinews
https://thedesk.net/2025/07/wikimedia-foundation-closing-wikinews/
The parent organization of Wikipedia said its sister platform Wikinews doesn't produce enough "well-rounded" news, and most traffic comes from search engine bots.

That said, anyone can aggregate news and the cost to distribute it is near-zero (add bandwidth costs). Recognition? Look at Craig's list. It started out as an email list. Because people liked it, it went viral.

Don't think of competing with Musk and Zuck.
They're peddling shit.
I have zero interest in sites that peddle shit.
I frequent Hacker News, which is run on a shoestring.

If it don't exist, INVENT IT.
Just do it without beautiful announcers and slick radio voices.
We got lots of journalism students needing practice.
Life's not to be lived passively.