PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract

alephnerd wrote: post #4

djaouen wrote: post #2

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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.

> Are you going to spend a couple hundred dollars a year on a subscription?

I would have, if this planet didn't f*ck me over yet again with crippling poverty lol

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Post by RickJWagner » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 1:56 AM UTC

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.

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Post by lynndotpy » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 1:57 AM UTC

alephnerd wrote: post #4

djaouen wrote: post #2

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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.

The economics are rough, but there are many which offer all three. E.g.: NPR's text site: https://text.npr.org/

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Post by Wowfunhappy » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 1:57 AM UTC

alephnerd wrote: post #4

djaouen wrote: post #2

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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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Post by bhasi » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 2:05 AM UTC

lynndotpy wrote: post #8

alephnerd wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The economics are rough, but there are many which offer all three. E.g.: NPR's text site: https://text.npr.org/

Wow, this is great. It's like Hacker News/Old Reddit for news.