Mastodawn

Are there any American newspapers left that haven't turned into social media? They all seem to be:

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"Opinion" pieces
Reprints from other sources
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Billionaire buy-outs to kill the platform
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Even the local stuff generally doesn't have any investigative aspects anymore.

I know it's been this way for a while but I just now realized that they really are just legacy social media. And that's sad.

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Tristan

@cR0w
AP news and NPR are pretty much all I read now. NPR seems to have improved significantly since they were doing straight up propaganda for Amazon, but the radio edition still does a lot of puff pieces for billionaire scam projects.
The last time I listened they wouldn't shut up about "the space data centers coming any day now!!"
The written articles are significantly better.

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Jess👾5d ago

@Tristan @cR0w reuters isn't bad either.

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Tristan 5d ago

@cR0w
AP has a history of parroting US lies about foreign policy, especially during the first trump administrations Venezuela flashpoint, but the last 4 years has been especially good about not repeating unverified claims from the Pentagon.