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Re:Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less dep... by IIAOPSW on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:37PM (#22323789)
>Bloomberg journalists are compensated for stories that “move markets”.

Possibly, but that is fundamentally different from infotainment. Even with that bias, Bloomberg never writes an article which fails to answer the most basic questions one could ask about a given story (unlike most "news" [1]). I also qualify them as decent because they generally report trends not anecdotes. Contrast with your local TV station running 1000 crime stories a week no matter the crime stats.

[1]https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/why-tv-news-is-a-waste-of-human...

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Re:Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less dep... by perl4ever on Saturday February 15, 2020 @07:47PM (#22339091)
This! Whatever its flaws, the fact that it doesn't share the most pernicious ones of most online news sources counts for something. I refuse to pay to access Bloomberg as long as he is running for President, but it would probably be worth subscribing to otherwise.
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