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asimd23
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Which promise total freedom

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The package is also annoying for media such as finews.ch in terms of online funding. It creates a two-class society in digital journalism. The 30 million Swiss francs will be used exclusively to fund online media whose articles readers have to pay for. Here's a heretical question: why should paywalls be a seal of quality for the journalism that is to be funded?

According to the Federal Council's criteria, open europe rcs data journalistic platforms - such as finews.ch - are of inferior quality and therefore do not deserve any subsidies. This shows - to put it mildly - a rather limited knowledge of media diversity and the media market.

The federal government has apparently ignored the fact that media operate in dual markets. Media companies have always earned their money not only from subscribers, but above all from the sale of advertising space.

In Switzerland, the dominant belief seems to be that online media that are so successful in the advertising market that they do not have to put up a paywall for their readers are per se second-class. Digital media projects such as "Republik", from advertising, are being celebrated as the new standard-bearers of independent journalism.
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