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Don't accept news sources that ąre not user funded. Advertising is really just bribes for positive press.

teawrecks 5y ago
What are some examples of good user-funded investigative journalist sources? Because the obvious hole in this panacea is that it's literally impossible to know where the actual funding comes from. Anything can be bankrolled under the table by anyone, and you'll never know. In fact, small payments from viewers all over the world are even easier to launder than large sums. IMO the news sources we have are as good as it will ever get. Maybe we can enact some legislation about advertising, since we all know there are privacy issues around it as well, but at the end of the day we just need people to evolve in the information age. To understand that our attention is valuable, and it's important to be able to distinguish what is worth our attention. We're in for some rough years until we figure that out as a species.
- reedjosh 5y ago
  > What are some examples of good user-funded investigative journalist sources? Go to substack and find someone you trust. I like Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald, but YMMV. Also, check out Congressional Dish. She reads legislation and reports. > Anything can be bankrolled under the table by anyone, and you'll never know. Sure, but should we take the possibility of mixed compromised interests as a reason to stick to the known compromised? Government media sources will have interests counter to your own. Large corporate media sources as well. Advertiser funded sources must not report negatively of their cash cows. I'll not be getting my information from sources like these
  - teawrecks 5y ago
    > Sure, but should we take the possibility of mixed compromised interests as a reason to stick to the known compromised? Again, I don't see the difference. I think compromised news is the best we can hope for, and we just need to get better at living with it.

What are some examples of good user-funded investigative journalist sources? Because the obvious hole in this panacea is that it's literally impossible to know where the actual funding comes from. Anything can be bankrolled under the table by anyone, and you'll never know. In fact, small payments from viewers all over the world are even easier to launder than large sums. IMO the news sources we have are as good as it will ever get. Maybe we can enact some legislation about advertising, since we all know there are privacy issues around it as well, but at the end of the day we just need people to evolve in the information age. To understand that our attention is valuable, and it's important to be able to distinguish what is worth our attention. We're in for some rough years until we figure that out as a species.

reedjosh 5y ago
> What are some examples of good user-funded investigative journalist sources? Go to substack and find someone you trust. I like Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald, but YMMV. Also, check out Congressional Dish. She reads legislation and reports. > Anything can be bankrolled under the table by anyone, and you'll never know. Sure, but should we take the possibility of mixed compromised interests as a reason to stick to the known compromised? Government media sources will have interests counter to your own. Large corporate media sources as well. Advertiser funded sources must not report negatively of their cash cows. I'll not be getting my information from sources like these
- teawrecks 5y ago
  > Sure, but should we take the possibility of mixed compromised interests as a reason to stick to the known compromised? Again, I don't see the difference. I think compromised news is the best we can hope for, and we just need to get better at living with it.