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Are you going to spend a couple hundred dollars a year on a subscription? Good, freely accessible, and ad-free press. You can only choose 2. The economics of journalism are tough.
PBS News Hour is all three. :(
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It got cut.
People shouting about PBS news being horribly biased are just flat-out wrong. Obviously their viewership leans centrist liberal, but no other news program in recent times approached their level of nonpartisanship when dealing with national politics. Regardless of their affiliation, they’d ask most interviewees a couple of pointed questions but always let them explain themselves uninterrupted, and let them have the la…
I’m glad Walter Cronkite is remembered through that school. In my mind, he was one of the last great journalists from an era that wasn’t strongly politically biased.
When I read that I'm always personally confused. He had a commanding voice and had an aurora of being above it all. But when you listened and watched what he actually did, he seemed very political in my mind, though perhaps more of a moderate(?). He even advocated for world government, endorsed politicians, etc.
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Are you going to spend a couple hundred dollars a year on a subscription? Good, freely accessible, and ad-free press. You can only choose 2. The economics of journalism are tough.
Strangely we used to think nothing of paying for a daily newspaper (which also contained ads) and many people subscribed to news magazines as well.
We are living in an era of more news, different formats more in depth. I think our expectations are misaligned we expect everything to be one click away and social media to present it to us in a doom scroll. The articles shared just here on hn you would never find in a newspaper. If you are lucky you discover a zine like phrack or 2600 and wait months for the next issue.
Of course it’s due to the federal funding cuts. At least DHS got 2,000x more than these cuts saved from PBS as our deficit continues to explode. https://current.org/2025/11/weta-to-cut-staff-cancel-pbs-new...
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Are you going to spend a couple hundred dollars a year on a subscription? Good, freely accessible, and ad-free press. You can only choose 2. The economics of journalism are tough.
Of course it’s due to the federal funding cuts. At least DHS got 2,000x more than these cuts saved from PBS as our deficit continues to explode. https://current.org/2025/11/weta-to-cut-staff-cancel-pbs-new...
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Earlier quoted context omitted.
It got cut.
People shouting about PBS news being horribly biased are just flat-out wrong. Obviously their viewership leans centrist liberal, but no other news program in recent times approached their level of nonpartisanship when dealing with national politics. Regardless of their affiliation, they’d ask most interviewees a couple of pointed questions but always let them explain themselves uninterrupted, and let them have the la…
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