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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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