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Re:Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home by snarf21 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:16AM (#46602080)
I fear that in the last decade, even the PBSs of the world have pulled back. They still create content but they have been very loathe to come out against any interest that the billionaire philanthropists might object to.
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Re:Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home by exceptione on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:21AM (#46602134)
I don't know too much about PBS specifically, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are not immune to Elite Capture¹

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_capture

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Re:Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home by pksebben on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:59AM (#46602730)
woof, that article. The examples section doesn't contain a single concrete example and after reading the whole thing I can't tell whether they're talking about academics publishing news articles or congress' revolving door. Wikipedia has been struggling lately. Maybe that's what they're talking about.
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Re:Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home by exceptione on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:24PM (#46604263)
effort.

"Andersen et al. 2022 found that about 7.5 percent of foreign aid is diverted by elites." etc

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