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slantedview | 4 months ago

As corporate media demonstrates, depending on ads and therefore, corporations, inevitably leads to compromises in your news coverage. NPR has tried to avoid this.

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mhb|4 months ago

Yet they have compromised their news coverage by pandering to the preferences of their audience.

troyvit|4 months ago

Ummm whose preferences are they supposed to be pandering to?

peterpeppers|4 months ago

“Yet they have compromised their news coverage by pandering”

Is this statement opinion or backed by data?

Either way, I’m not sure you understand the purpose of a free press. A free press gives all audiences an opportunity to find contrarian viewpoints in the media. That’s it. There’s nothing else because that’s all that’s possible.

There’s not some perfect state that exists where all media outlets (Fox News, CBS, Mother Jones) are perfectly neutral.

This is why freedom of the press and freedom of speech are so important.