On 10Feb2021 2329, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> g) When Captain Bob shows up at the starport, what news will he get?  > And how will he pay for it, if at all? > Does he get all current TNS
stuff? Does he have to pay for that? If so, how much?

> My answer: TNS would release warnings relating to health and safety  > freely. Other content would have a modest cost. Some of the more >
interesting but none critical pieces might be behind a higher tier of >
premium content. Same with most news agencies. The ones that give it >
away likely have an agenda. My assumption is that the TNS is part of the
TAS range of services and operations. The TNS makes money selling news
over interstellar distances. What we see in the TNS bulletins are the
short summaries and warnings that a TAS member would get for free at the
local TAS branch (all part of the service). Others would pay a nominal
fee for them, and they might be 'free to spacers' at the starport
(actually covered by the docking and other port fees).

Articles going into the headlines in greater depth would cost, though
the fee to TAS members would be small, and probably just part of a
general fee for use of their news and records database.

On-world most people wouldn't use the TNS directly, but would read about
these things or see these things in their local news media editions,
which would buy their off-world news from an interstellar news service,
of which the TNS is the biggest, though not necessarily the best if you
want articles covering specialist areas in-depth.

I think the short TNS pieces that we have such a nice collection of
probably go Imperium-wide, though manyy won't actually appear on a
general-news feed if they're from a couple of sectors away. They'd be in
the feed for people who are interested/bored enough to dig through it
though. The full article that might be attached to them probably doesn't
travel as far if the piece is considered of local interest only and
someone further away would have to put in a request for it, and wait
however many weeks for it to be sent from the nearest TNS news archive
(I assume they'd have one or two per sub-sector that would store all the
news from the sector, and a couple per sector that would get all the
articles from everywhere - eventually).

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>