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Re:Half of Americans now believe that news organizations del... by pjc50 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:24AM (#34818997)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformat... (which of course will be immediately accused of bias, but he's not wrong about the facts of the extent to which those people are funded by supplements)

It's a big problem for the regular press too. Peter Oborne resigned from the Telegraph after they suppressed negative reporting on big advertiser HSBC: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/peter-ob...

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Re:Half of Americans now believe that news organizations del... by denton-scratch on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:51PM (#34822392)
There's quite a few independent UK journalists who are refugees from editors that started spiking their stories. Jonathan Cook and John Pilger both had to leave The Guardian.
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Re:Half of Americans now believe that news organizations del... by jpadkins on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:45PM (#34824670)
the nytimes link is /opinion/ which is held to a different to a different standard than standard news. I'm glad they at least label it as opinion.

I think people reading opinion as news is part of the problem.

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