Why does Reuters, or the BBC for that matter, think I’ll pay a subscription when ads outweigh the story?
Where are you located? Reuters cut us off in the US a year or so ago, put up a paywall, I just discovered they gave up on it for us, no paywall, and ublockorigin will block all ads and they can’t see you are doing it by the way.
When they put up the US paywall, I guess it was just after the 2024 election not coincindentally I think, people I talked to online in Europe, canada, australia, etc., were not paywalled just us. The BBC also talked about cutting the US off at that time too, not that I read them although I do listen to newshour if I have the radio, as NPR generally sucks more.
I’m in the US. Guess I just haven’t tried to access them on mobile Safari in a while since this was new to me.
I generally find NPR the most bearable of US news outlets. I also used to run a member station newsroom and reported for the network a few times during those years.
BBC lost credibility several years ago for hosts talking more than guests and putting words into the guests’ mouth. Their paywall was just a curious additional insult.
I would add, a moment in the bbc losing credibility to me, already accused of cynicism, was when they interviewed some lula partisan during the car wash investigation, while pretending the prosecutor’s office was on the up and up. I called bs in real time, I was right. The bbc is fucked in many areas, and running scared on Israel.
To keep independent journalism going. Fight on! ✊
Hantavirus is scary, if it got the ability to spread via aerosols and the like, we would be in for a world of hurt. Some strains have a 40% mortality, although most are well below that they are all way more than covid.
This is the Argentinian strain it appears as that is the only one they know of that has spread person to person, and the cruise started out there. Hopefully none of the infected have a cold or flu that could recombine with hanta and create a new virus as such.