Inhaltswarnung: Just completed an "anonymous" survey for Crikey. They'll not find much pleasantness in my answers. Here's an early one, & the final one.
On would i pay to re-subscribe [having opted out from another renewal recently]:
I honestly don't know, it's a matter of frequent self-debate & contemplation. I want Oz to have strong vibrant viable non-RWNJ non-sociopathic media, but perversely i do not like the direct user-pays model [& i abhor advertising], fervently believing instead that media should be generically funded by general tax revenue allocated for such purpose, as a national good. However i also know that's something way beyond my, or your, personal capability to achieve.
On any final remarks:
I realise my responses will be discouraging for you, & i'm sorry about that. Pls know this though. I think Crikey is great, & i know that financial survival is an essential concern for you. Most of my negativity you might correctly discern from my survey responses are, tbh, nothing to do with Crikey, & everything to do with my abject depression & sense of irrevocable doom given the climate crisis & biodiversity extinction calamity, as well as rising racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny... yet voters here & OS keep electing fucking RWNJs instead. My overwhelming sense of our existential peril is such that i now feel that almost everything else is a trivial distraction of little consequence. Cheery, eh?
