No money in paper copy sadly. I started life in the litho industry and got out as digital was killing trade. My ex ended his career at a newspaper printers before it closed.
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It’s so sad what’s happening to the journalism and print trade.
aug 17, 2025, 8:15 pm • 2 0 • view
It is, when I started we had a little old chap with a treadle machine printing highly bespoke products from racks of lead typeset. I’m sure he must have felt the same about modern print processes.
aug 17, 2025, 8:23 pm • 2 0 • view
I know. This is why I think it needs to be community/cooperative-funded. It would take the big question about "who's gaining from what I'm being told?" out of the equation.
aug 17, 2025, 8:06 pm • 4 1 • view
You’re right!
aug 17, 2025, 8:09 pm • 2 0 • view
An example of how this works is the RNLI (the British lifeboat organisation). Voluntary crews, funded by donations. Some say that should be state-funded, but the RNLI don't want that. Their argument is that government funding restricts their activities and puts them under the command of a paymaster.
aug 17, 2025, 8:29 pm • 2 0 • view