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PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract
- djaouen 10mo ago[flagged]
- JoshTriplett 10mo agoThe article has ads in it? (uBlock Origin successfully blocks all of them.)
- alephnerd 10mo agoAre 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.
- djaouen 10mo ago> 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
- mystraline 10mo ago> I would have, if this planet didn't f*ck me over yet again with crippling poverty lol You misspelled capitalists. They are the ones who are fucking you, me, and anyone with money.
- lynndotpy 10mo agoThe economics are rough, but there are many which offer all three. E.g.: NPR's text site: https://text.npr.org/ https://text.npr.org/
- bhasi 10mo agoWow, this is great. It's like Hacker News/Old Reddit for news.
- ViscountPenguin 10mo agoPublic funding is kind of a cheat, but if we're gonna include them, I'd like to spruik that the ABC still technically has functional rss feeds: https://james.cridland.net/blog/2025/abc-news-australia-rss-feeds/ https://james.cridland.net/blog/2025/abc-news-australia-rss-... They're no longer officially supported though.
- Wowfunhappy 10mo agoPBS News Hour is all three. :(
- dingnuts 10mo agothe reason they got defunded is because many people do not agree
- SoftTalker 10mo agoStrangely we used to think nothing of paying for a daily newspaper (which also contained ads) and many people subscribed to news magazines as well.
- DrewADesign 10mo agoYeah. This is the tech world making everything better. Sure the news is biased, poorly-written garbage, but you can have a lot of it, instantly, for like no money!
- xp84 10mo agoThe Internet is not devoid of good quality media. Yes, some of it you have to pay for. The free papers we had before the Internet were never bastions of great journalism (though I'll admit that national TV news once was once pretty decent, and free). And all news is biased. The only thing is, you can only see the bias towards your ideological enemies. When it's your bias, it's called "the truth."
- DrewADesign 10mo agoNo — free media has almost always been substandard. The tech world essentially lowered the bar for all media. I pay for good media.
- ipaddr 10mo agoHave you tried going back 80% ap articles, some opinion columns, classifieds and sports with a lifestyle section. 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.
- xp84 10mo agoI read the newspaper, just like you described, in the 90s and 2000s as a kid. It was really interesting and valuable. Honestly, yeah, that sounds amazing.
- golem14 10mo agoI wonder if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events is actually a good media diet. I mean, I wonder if I will be OK just reading this (and maybe HN) and not suffer irreparable harm :)
- OhioMan2943 10mo agoSign of the times
- askh4 10mo ago[dead]
- RickJWagner 10mo agoI’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.
- lettergram 10mo agoWhen 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.
- themafia 10mo agoUncritically accepted the Warren Report.
- Braxton1980 10mo agoIs it possible you think there's a stronger political bias in the media today than in the past because of proganda designed to make you think that?
- junkypuppet 10mo agoThe article doesn’t mention it, but I wonder if this has anything to do with ASU’s President trying to cozy up with the Trump administration [0]. Trump has already at least tried to cut federal funding for PBS [1]. I’m not sure where that’s at now. [0]: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/arizona-state-university-trump-63e31b8d https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/arizona-state-universi... [1]: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-en...
- slicedice 10mo agoIt got cut.
- DrewADesign 10mo agoPeople 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 last word unless it was blatantly false. In the Obama era they regularly had top Republican leadership on from that era and years past— Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, and Mitch McConnell were on there all the time. I’ve seen Steve Bannon respectfully (actually rather warmly) interviewed within the past year, as well as people from the heritage foundation, Manhattan institute, Cato institute, and other people from across the right-wing spectrum. David Brooks isn’t representative of the Republican mainstream at the moment, but they’ve started getting more representative Republican counterpoints on their panels over the past few months, even after the republicans cut their funding. They present a more reasonable, tempered, and charitable perspective on both political parties than any other major news outlet. Culture war bullshit.
- Forgeties79 10mo agoAfter I heard someone call McConnell a RINO I knew that no amount of concessions would make them feel coverage was “fair.” It’s Trump’s way or the highway.
- mikeyouse 10mo agoOf 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-news-weekend-and-close-news-hour-west-bureau/?wallit_nosession=1 https://current.org/2025/11/weta-to-cut-staff-cancel-pbs-new...
- codeddesign 10mo ago[flagged]
- bc3 10mo agoThis is inherently political. The "revised priorities" are clearly because of our current economic and political climate. Your comment is intentionally obtuse or malicious.
- codeddesign 10mo ago[flagged]
- trial3 10mo agowhat are the revised priorities? what revised the priorities? maybe consider doing just the teensiest bit of journalism of your own
- codeddesign 10mo agoThat part is fairly easy to understand with a few google searches. Journalism programs are at a loss across the country and have been in decline for some time. When a university program is not profitable they close the program. Low wages, less employment opportunity, and the decrease in interest of writing. Combine this with social media and the age of influencers - you suddenly have a huge decline across the board. Journalism is not what you see on tv. Those are essentially actors and are the 1%. The rest are those writing in newspapers (in decline) and making barely livable wages with most on contract rather than salary. It’s an incredibly difficult line of work when it comes to wages and job security.
- slantedview 10mo agoIt's no coincidence that at a time of eroding democracy, public journalism is being cut.
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- jjulius 10mo agoThis entire response is disingenuously obtuse.
- codeddesign 10mo agoLike it or not, the entire response is accurate.
- zzrrt 10mo agoOk then, I look forward to my tax breaks and refunds enabled by cutting this program. I’m sure it’s in the mail with all the other dividends for citizens that Trump mentions every few months.
- codeddesign 10mo agoAgain, this would be the Legislative branch. Your right to vote has not decreased, and you can absolutely contact your senator to introduce a bill for what you stated. I mean, you have a representative. Absolutely use them if you dislike something. However, disagreeing with the Legislative or Executive branch in no way erodes your democratic rights.
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- user3939382 10mo agoASU accepted $20M in criminal gains IMHO AFAICT. I have receipts
- zzzeek 10mo agoPaging MacKenzie Scott....