Whether or not USA Today believes in free speech, its sponsors to not. They expect brand safe conduct.
Also USA Today's upper management has opinions on what they would publish. You won't see pro-anarchist op-eds in USA Today.
That said, news agencies are less good for getting news rather used in conjunction with others to confirm their veracity.
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Lol how insane and out of touch
If garbage had a face.
award winning content
sure jan.
Don't use your freedom of choice, it hurts our bank accounts and bonuses 😭😭 - board member.
How many lies can you fit in one sentence
We believe in free speech, do you? Give us all your money and send us your nude to prove it.
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Are you using uBlock Origin? I don't get that popup after clicking to a few articles.
Free speech = you must do what we say.
I decide what speech is welcome in my home.
Yes let’s let corporations dictate our freedoms! Literally nothing bad could ever happen guys!
Lol that's the dumbest thing I've seen in a while.
There is no free speech in news.
Your ads are award-winning?!?
Oh, so you believe in free speech? Let me scream into your ear for 30 minutes straight then.
Its a bad marketing campaign because it is easily turned into threads like this. Also, I have no idea if USA Today is good or not (I genuinely have never even thought about it).
But it is worth understanding. News outlets need to get funding from somewhere. Some are state funded and I should not need to explain why that introduces biases. Others take massive sponsorship deals from companies and ensure that John Oliver will always have something to talk about. And others run ads to varying degrees of curation.
The last option is subscriptions and those are few and far between.
Its more or less the same thing we saw with ads in general over the 00s. More and more people learned how to block ads so more and more websites needed to add obnoxious flash based ads and insane uses of javascript and so forth to get any impressions. And fewer and fewer "good" companies wanted to advertise to adblock heavy audiences which led to more and more trojans and so forth. Which leads to more and more ad blockers and...
In the case of news media? We mostly see this manifest as less investigative journalism and more listicles and "clickbait" articles because those at least get the facebook crowd to click.
So it is very much worth looking in to more permissive blocklists and even permitlists. Block tracking cookies because fuck that shit. But permit sites that you "trust" to have reasonable ads and look in to finer grain blocklists that still allow the actual ads to be displayed, even if they aren't the ones based on Amazon figuring out you have a foot fetish.
I wonder which content blocker you're using, because with uBlock Origin (with a fairly aggressive config and custom blocklists) I do not get that "disable adblock" pop up.
Not like I'd visit this site at all, I just tried to see if I could create a uBO filter for you to remove the paywall.
Free speech doesn't mean a compelled audience.
Just because you can say it doesn't mean I have to listen.
Reminds me of Microsoft's "1,000,000 PCs can't be wrong" or whatever it was when they started pushing windows 10 to 7 users
wow, the balls of the folk who came up with this 🤡
Makes sense lol
If you’re trying to get paid based one someone’s views or clicks, it’s not free.
Ummm... That's the wrong freedom for them to be trying to invoke. They have their own. It's called Freedom of the Press. But they don't seem to want to invoke that one when they know it is bullshit.
Free speech also entails how willingly you are to put that speech out there. If you want to cover it with a paywall of any sort, you are most welcome to do that. Keep in mind that free speech and its actions also have consequences. If your content is good enough, people might pay to see it. Free market and all that.
This might be a mildly infuriating moment
Free speech for corporations and advertisers. For users is the paywall as adblocker. For this screenshot, Memes is a better place.
If you don't read our ads you don't believe in free speech?
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biggest bullcrap seen until now
It's a false dichotomy to manipulate users, they're so dumb lmao.
Is this even real? It has to be a meme.....
Advertisements are pretty specifically not free.
On the contrary, I believe free speech gives me the right to JUST SAY NO. Don't give in, you have that right as an individual.
Good Independent journalism requires money. You can't have everything for free you know. If you want to keep your privacy then you should pay for the news sources that you read.
Edit: I'm not american I do not know if USA today is good journalism or not. I am speaking more generally
Reminds me of this: https://lemmus.org/comment/1980014
Run of the mill piece of shit media outlet right there.
They are trying to appeal to "Red" tastes with this one.
Free speech = you have to listen to every capitalists crap
Free speech is dead. It's already tainted with hatred, violence and bigotry.
this is literally what righties think free speech mean
IF YOU WANT ACCESS TO THIS ARTICLE YOU MUST SACRIFICE YOUR FREE WILL AND LET CORPORATIONS RAPE YOU. FREE SPEECH IS WHAT BUILT THIS COUNTRY. I CAN SAY removed AND CUNT AS MUCH AS I WANT IN THE PRIVACY OF MY OWN HOME. NIGG3R NIGG3R NIGG3R NIGG3R NIGG3R
