• @idiomaddict
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    17 days ago

    That’s not inherently a bad thing, imo. They should be meeting people where they are, and if people listen to podcasts more than watching broadcast news, then they should have correspondents for that medium.

    • Flying Squid
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      17 days ago

      That people are getting their so-called news on a fucking podcast by an asshole Trump manipulator is part of the problem.

      • @idiomaddict
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        17 days ago

        Sure, that podcast sucks, but podcasts are generally more accessible than broadcast news. If you don’t have a TV and don’t want your data mined, the big news stations of the 20th century aren’t really an option. The medium itself isn’t the problem imo, there are lots of great news podcasts

        • Flying Squid
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          17 days ago

          How are they more accessible than literally any legitimate news website?

          • @idiomaddict
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            17 days ago

            They don’t include cookie paywalls, which most news websites do

            • Flying Squid
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              17 days ago

              Most newspaper websites do that. Pretty much all the TV-based ones, including Fox News, do not.

              • @idiomaddict
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                17 days ago

                NBC requires them, and neither ABC nor fox has a banner for me (in the eu, so either they automatically collect nothing or they break the law and don’t tell you- at least for fox, I suspect the latter is more likely, given that the UK based Murdoch news network, news.co.uk, does have a banner). CBS does not require them though, so I guess there’s that.