Today FM recently won a number of awards for its digital news and current affairs productions. All of these went offline when the station's owners abruptly shut it down after only about a year on the air. This is a good example of why we need properly-funded public media organisations. We simply can't rely on profit-seeking corporations to do public interest media work, nor to keep it available for posterity if they do:
This is also a good example of why I've consistently said that public funding to produce media works ought to come with an obligation to publish them under a CreativeCommons license.
"The fruits of Tova O’Brien and videographer Simon Morrow’s much-hyped trip to Ukraine - funded with $50,000 from the Public Interest Journalism Fund - has also gone."
@strypey
By "properly funded" do you mean government funded?
I don't agree. I think any organisation is going to have a bias and it's not right to force people to pay for the spreading of views they disagree with (I only support it w.r.t. government because I see a lot of problems with ancapism).
>We simply can't rely on profit-seeking corporations
What about nonprofit but independent organizations?
@Hyolobrika These are good points. I'm agnostic on all of them. It's just self-evidenct to me that you can't run properly-resourced public interest media on volunteers and bake-sales. Indymedia tested the theory that the net made that possible (I was a co-founder of Aotearoa IMC). Turns out it's not sustainable.
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