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[–] SuddenDownpour 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and the majority of our news publications are compromised by wealthy owners

This is true in the vast majority of European countries too. If anything, you usually find an exception in a public broadcasting channel, which may or may not be influenced by political officials.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The US has NPR and access to foreign news services, they are just absolutely disgustingly lazy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You have way more faith in NPR these days than I do. If you haven't noticed the massive decline in quality of journalistic integrity there I don't know what to tell you.