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Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper? by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:40PM (#30226422)
The title "Restricted access to accurate news accountable for political divide" is utterly misleading. First, it's not the title of the linked article, which is an opinion piece. There is zero research or data in the linked piece to support the conclusion in the title, and I highly doubt that if the NY Times or Washington Post did away with their pay walls that the political divide would go away.
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Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper? by devindotcom on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:50PM (#30226551)
It cites a professor who recently wrote a book on the topic: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/news-for-the-rich-white-an...
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Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper? by dang on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:32PM (#30226958)
Ok, we've changed the title to the article title now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper? by rdiddly on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:52PM (#30226566)
The title and the article itself also both seem to take as a presupposition the notion that the truth is what's behind those paywalls, while what's out here for free is inherently "disinformation." (There is plenty of truth in free independent news outlets, and plenty of disinformation being disseminated by corporate ones.)
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Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper? by pklausler on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:54PM (#30227165)
Ironically, NPR is free. (Unless you support your local public broadcaster, which I do, since mine is pretty good.)
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Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper? by rdiddly on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:02PM (#30227727)
Yeah the article also seems like a little bit of a dig from a government-supported news source against corporate ones that charge money. Meant to come back & add that, but got distracted!
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Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper? by cudgy on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:52PM (#30229576)
This document does not support this statement that NPR is government supported in any significant way. NPR is mostly supported by private corporate donations (about 40%) and dues and fees paid by local stations (about 30%). The remaining funding is from cash contributions from private citizens and a few other miscellaneous sources.

https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...

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