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The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”
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#302This seems like fighting the last war. When I hear "PBS for the internet" I think publicly-funded content. Content on the internet doesn't have pride of place like it does on broadcast media. The internet is about platforms. "PBS for the internet" should be about creating, first, open standards for content distribution, promotion, and moderation. And then maybe implementing those standards. Content is basically free…
> The better way to spread good content is to create standards and maybe a platform that incentivizes third parties to make good content.
In the article, it says exactly this. Their standards for transparency will be a model for other outlets.
Re: The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean the word I used. NPR is "notorious" because it carries itself with an air of impartiality, while definitely being partial. Where CNN and Fox are openly biased and understood to be so, NPR and its fans tend to argue that it isn't - but 99% of people making that claim vote blue, and disproportionately towards the Bernie end of blue.
I am not sure that there's widespread belief outside of Fox News viewers that CNN is "openly biased and understood to be so". If you had grown up in a country where, as I mentioned, "unbiased journalism" was assumed to be a lie from the start, I think you'd read whether or not NPR "carries itself with an air of impartiality" quite differently. Most of the actual leftists that I know find NPR to be biased in quite the…
I mean no harm, but you definitely sound like you're on the left.
Not only do you imagine that CNN isn't seen as left (except by the only pillar of right-ness you've named, Fox) - but you know plenty of people who are left of CNN, which is already left of the median voter.
That you think NPR is a status quo defender - when their coverage of anything that touches on culture topics is extremely and consistently progressive - reaffirms that.
Please understand it's fine to be left-wing, but you will see the world as controlled by nefarious powers and agendas if you don't recognise that you are.
For example -they couldn't make a July 4th post without immediately turning it into a People's History seminar with a lecture about women's and indigenous rights.