The local news crisis is deepening America's divides

Re:The local news crisis is deepening America's divides by bilsbie on Monday July 04, 2022 @12:25PM (#31978798)

I’d say to question those assumptions. Open source software exists but the congenital wisdom that engineers would never do work for free.

You’d be surprised what people will volunteer for. Some people are already attending those things and perhaps they’d be willing to report back.

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Re:The local news crisis is deepening America's divides by adrianN on Monday July 04, 2022 @12:44PM (#31979057)

It's a lot harder to get unbiased news if you solely rely on volunteers.

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Re:The local news crisis is deepening America's divides by abirch on Monday July 04, 2022 @12:58PM (#31979222)

Can you imagine getting your news from a version of Richard Stallman.

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Re:The local news crisis is deepening America's divides by adrianN on Monday July 04, 2022 @01:21PM (#31979541)

I do in fact read his RSS feed from time to time...

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Re:The local news crisis is deepening America's divides by goodpoint on Monday July 04, 2022 @06:35PM (#31982428)

There is no such thing as "unbiased" and there is nothing wrong with biased news as long as the reader is aware of the bias.

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Re:The local news crisis is deepening America's divides by adrianN on Monday July 04, 2022 @11:55PM (#31984142)

There is nothing wrong about biased news if there is a variety of biases available. I think for local news the risk is very high that a small group of volunteers can capture almost all reporting and push only their biases.

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