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Never knew news websites could survive without ads

9 points by dheerajmp 6mo ago

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DamonHD 6mo ago
Also: [1] https://lite.cnn.com/ https://lite.cnn.com/ [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news https://www.bbc.co.uk/news (at least when viewed from the UK)
- dheerajmp 6mo ago
  The mobile version of BBC has ton of ads
  - DamonHD 6mo ago
    When viewed from in the UK? https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/questions/behind-the-scenes/advertising-on-websites https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/questions/behind-the-scenes/ad...
jckahn 6mo ago
Yes, when they are publicly funded. Are you a regular donor?
- expedition32 6mo ago
  In my country the government sponsors a national independent news organisation. But this wouldn't work in America because it would immediately turn into Trump/Christian propaganda. The concept of organising your own opposition because journalism is one of the pillars of democracy.
  - blell 6mo ago
    There is publicly-funded media in my country too. Guess how they lean politically.
    - GJim 6mo ago
      > Guess how they lean politically. I don't know. Tell me. FWIW, our own publicly funded media tends to get criticised equally from fruitcakes at both ends of the political spectrum, so they are clearly doing something right!
      - happymellon 6mo ago
        At least from observations in my country, our publicly funded media news is right wing, but get called out by right wingers as not being right wing enough and (falsely claimed to be centrist/left wing because they mention a right wing politician being a pervert). After enough complaints they manage to move the overton window and the news is slightly more right wing. Repeat.
akst 6mo ago
As someone else has said it is publicly funded, it's the same with Australia's ABC news [1]. When you watch it on TV, I guess there are ads for its own shows but other than that they are not allowed run ads. Funnily there are ads shown on its stories on apple news, I always wondered if that was in some violation of the Australia Broadcasting Corporation Act [2]. [1]: https://www.abc.net.au https://www.abc.net.au [2]: https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A02723/2022-02-18/2022-02-18/text/1/epub/OEBPS/document_1/document_1.html#_Toc29475051 https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A02723/2022-02-18/2022-0...
- botanrice 6mo ago
  heyo! you responded to a comment I made two months ago complimenting my personal site (https://concourse.codes https://concourse.codes & https://borice.exposed https://borice.exposed) and asking if I made the pixel art myself. I'm not sure how HackerNews notifications work so I'm just seeing it and wanted to say thank you, and also no, sadly, I did not make the pixel art myself. I am learning how as a separate endeavor, but in this case I fine-tuned midjourney on a set of windows 98 icons and then fed it photos of various things that I wanted to convert to pixel art. It works quite well and is fun tbh. anyways, thanks again & hope you're doing well <3
  - akst 6mo ago
    This reply was unexpected but a nice surprise :) I remember your site! I really like the consistent visual language, even if you didn't make the pixel art, at the very least they go well with your site. I entered my email on your other site, feel free to reach out or whatever, also this is my site https://akst.io https://akst.io Hope you're doing well as well!
- dheerajmp 6mo ago
  Yeah, I hope npr is still funded amidst the funding cut by the government.

9 points by dheerajmp 6mo ago

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Also: [1] https://lite.cnn.com/ https://lite.cnn.com/ [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news https://www.bbc.co.uk/news (at least when viewed from the UK)

dheerajmp 6mo ago
The mobile version of BBC has ton of ads
- DamonHD 6mo ago
  When viewed from in the UK? https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/questions/behind-the-scenes/advertising-on-websites https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/questions/behind-the-scenes/ad...

jckahn 6mo ago

Yes, when they are publicly funded. Are you a regular donor?

expedition32 6mo ago
In my country the government sponsors a national independent news organisation. But this wouldn't work in America because it would immediately turn into Trump/Christian propaganda. The concept of organising your own opposition because journalism is one of the pillars of democracy.
- blell 6mo ago
  There is publicly-funded media in my country too. Guess how they lean politically.
  - GJim 6mo ago
    > Guess how they lean politically. I don't know. Tell me. FWIW, our own publicly funded media tends to get criticised equally from fruitcakes at both ends of the political spectrum, so they are clearly doing something right!
    - happymellon 6mo ago
      At least from observations in my country, our publicly funded media news is right wing, but get called out by right wingers as not being right wing enough and (falsely claimed to be centrist/left wing because they mention a right wing politician being a pervert). After enough complaints they manage to move the overton window and the news is slightly more right wing. Repeat.

akst 6mo ago

As someone else has said it is publicly funded, it's the same with Australia's ABC news [1]. When you watch it on TV, I guess there are ads for its own shows but other than that they are not allowed run ads. Funnily there are ads shown on its stories on apple news, I always wondered if that was in some violation of the Australia Broadcasting Corporation Act [2]. [1]: https://www.abc.net.au https://www.abc.net.au [2]: https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A02723/2022-02-18/2022-02-18/text/1/epub/OEBPS/document_1/document_1.html#_Toc29475051 https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A02723/2022-02-18/2022-0...

botanrice 6mo ago
heyo! you responded to a comment I made two months ago complimenting my personal site (https://concourse.codes https://concourse.codes & https://borice.exposed https://borice.exposed) and asking if I made the pixel art myself. I'm not sure how HackerNews notifications work so I'm just seeing it and wanted to say thank you, and also no, sadly, I did not make the pixel art myself. I am learning how as a separate endeavor, but in this case I fine-tuned midjourney on a set of windows 98 icons and then fed it photos of various things that I wanted to convert to pixel art. It works quite well and is fun tbh. anyways, thanks again & hope you're doing well <3
- akst 6mo ago
  This reply was unexpected but a nice surprise :) I remember your site! I really like the consistent visual language, even if you didn't make the pixel art, at the very least they go well with your site. I entered my email on your other site, feel free to reach out or whatever, also this is my site https://akst.io https://akst.io Hope you're doing well as well!
dheerajmp 6mo ago
Yeah, I hope npr is still funded amidst the funding cut by the government.