I support a few online news outfits financially, sending contributions to our local rural newspaper, Wikipedia, and a few others. One of those others is the Guardian. Partially it's to reward them for publishing without a paywall (though they annoyingly throw login barriers up from time to time) and partially it's because of the reason outlined in this post: "what readers really wanted to give us money for was the most serious, most difficult investigative reporting." This is where most media has failed. Even as it asks readers to support it financially, it continues to represent mostly the interests of its corporate owners. Why would we pay for that? The same is true (or will hold true) in education. People will pay - voluntarily - when education actually benefits learners, and does so in a way more tangibly than helping them get jobs and serve corporate interests more effectively.
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