As someone much smarter than me recently wrote, "The Truth is Paywalled but
the Lies are Free".
Stewart
I call absolute bullshit on this assertion, which I have seen in meme form at a number of locations. It's provably wrong. Most of the objectively least-biased and most trustworthy news sources <https://www.adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/> are freely accessible: NPR, Reuters, Associated Press, ABC, CBS and others.... Other sources that I also find interesting go even further <https://theconversation.com/ca>, allowing their journalism to be shared under Creative Commons rules. What is paywalled is elitist analysis, editorials, op-eds and assorted claptrap. Most often it's elitist neoliberal claptrap (NYT, WaPo, G&M, NatPo), but -- as the Toronto Star demonstrates -- elitist progressive lefty claptrap can be paywalled too. Please allow that meme the painful death it deserves. - Evan