The BBC is introducing a paywall in the U.S.
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Today, the BBC announced it’s introducing a paywall for consumers in the U.S. The move isn’t a total surprise — on June 15, The Guardian reported the plans were in the works — but it is a marked shift in strategy: it’s the first time the broadcaster will directly charge for its journalism…

Time to unfollow them, I guess.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I love the US defaultism even when they’re talking about another country’s public news station

      (edit: the title originally just said it was adding a paywall without mention of any country)

        • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
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          17 days ago

          The original title just said something like “BBC is now paywalled” making it sound like it applied to more than 1 of the 195 (worldometers.info recognised) countries in the world.

          I’m not British but it’d be pretty alarming to hear that the BBC was adding a paywall that applied to the British if I was British