Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

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    8 months ago

    It’s all our collective fault, mine included. I’ve never paid for news, yet expect unbiased news free from corporate fuckery…

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      8 months ago

      And over here the state-funded media is getting less money every year because our right-wing parties don’t like it.

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        8 months ago

        Honest fact based journalism is an essential pillar of a functional democracy. Being informed is absolutely in the public interest, and government funding should support it, precisely because it often isn’t profitable or sustainable for private companies (as we keep seeing over the years).

        I don’t understand why this is so hard to grasp. And the people whining about liberal bias and calling for defunding of public media are missing the forest for the trees (even if some of the journalism is questionable in quality).

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      8 months ago

      There is no such thing as unbiased news free from corporate fuckery. But you can subscribe to several well-known and reputable news outlets, public broadcast services, and other varied reliable sources, and hope that the combined fuckery cancel each other out. For now, that’s the best that you can do.

      It’s not easy and it’s not cheap.