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What are some good independent American media outlets if NPR and PBS get their funding cut? (lemmy.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Local" news sources tend to be more trustworthy than national ones.

And those who aggregate local sources, like Jon Stewart:-).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Depends on what you mean by “local”.

Local papers are frequently owned by national conglomerates and just reprint mostly national wire stories. Same with local tv and radio stations. Didn’t you see that video going around of Sinclair-owned TV stations all parroting the same right-wing talking points? Most local tv news now is just corporate PR and network news feeds pulled down from satellite. Another recent example — The Dallas Morning News didn’t cover the downtown anti-Trump protests in Dallas. At all.

Local blogs from actual journalists can be good depending on the source. And those independent freebie newspapers you can pick up at the grocery store entrance can be decent local news coverage (like Creative Loafing, The Stranger, Community Impact).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

True but then I would not call those as "sources", since as you say they are very obviously merely redistribution outlets of prepackaged material made elsewhere. It does make it so difficult for a common person to know what to trust or not - most especially someone coming in from the outside. Everywhere you look is bias... and worse.