It's okay when they do it

In Sweden, we have press support for newspapers whose content is at least 55% self-produced.

That newspaper publishers who receive this press support, which is financed 100% with tax money, choose to lock the articles is dishonest.

To be able to read them, we taxpayers must pay a subscription. So, in effect, some taxpayers are paying double for this material.

To top it off, there is nothing that prevents the companies that receive this tax-financed press support from making dividends to their owners.

There is an editor-in-chief of a newspaper with a focus on analysis, in-depth analysis and independent social democratic opinion journalism that almost daily questions the independent schools in Sweden how they justify making dividends financed with tax money.

These independent schools do not receive grants or support but provide a service, a school education and are paid per pupil.

Even this clearly LEFT-leaning newspaper makes dividends to its owners, how they justify this dividends which is partly based on tax money via press support no one knows because they do not answer that question.