myth: #advertising supports democracy, without it news sites would need paywalls to support quality journalism
reality: 10% of the people in the USA buy a majority of the stuff, so over time an ad-supported site will skew to the interests of that wealthy 10% In the real world, quality journalism can only be sustained by daring heists
Don Marti
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