• Flying Squid
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    114 hours 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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      114 hours 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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        114 hours ago

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

        • @idiomaddict
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          114 hours ago

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

          • Flying Squid
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            114 hours ago

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

            • @idiomaddict
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              114 hours 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.