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I don't know anything about your situation, and I truly don't need details, but if you think you can't afford access to any news outlet, I don't think you're trying hard enough.
Since you're apparently too poor to access any way to entertain or inform yourself, I'm guessing you've had ample time to mull over solutions to this problem, and I'm eager to learn what an ideal solution would look like from your perspective.
Are you cool with paying for your news in exchange for your data/ads? Is there part of the editorial process we could remove to save money? Maybe we don't need fact checkers and should just assume that journalists know what they're talking about?
I'm not sure how we simultaneously provide free journalism and ensure that those journalists have enough to eat themselves, but I share in your convictions that democratizing information is imperative.
From where I sit, it seems like news organizations have moved away from showing ads for revenue to some extent, so the only option we have is to include news in our monthly budget and support journalists as much as we can.
Well, I can neither do magic, nor work, so I'm not sure what you're expecting me to do. lol My budget is state limited, so I have to prioritize where I spent it. And considering that it doesn't suffice front and center, I simply cannot pay 15 bucks or whatever for some sort of subscription, especially not for just one single website. Nowadays everyone asks for their 15 bucks of service fee and if I had to pay for each and every single one of them I'd have to pay more than what my monthly budget looks like.
I don't have a solution for the capitalist issue, but selling user data is surely not it. Generally, I think news should be freely accessible to everyone, as it is a core foundation of our democracies. Some countries have state or public funded papers, but not all of them and most people are not linking to those exclusively, assuming they even cover a given topic.