Please support whatever local journalism you have in your area, if you have any. Financially if possible / subscriptions. They are one of the few organizations that give a voice in support of the public good, and very rarely receive the thanks and gratitude they deserve.

Many areas no longer have local journalism and are controlled by large corporations (most local TV news for example). In that case there is not much that can be done unless you are a journalist yourself.

The media is arguably a 4th branch of government that can help to maintain a system of checks and balances.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Is this the best answer? (Genuine question, I appreciate the sentiment and agree with it, but does it really address the issues with news outlets?).

    I just don’t know what the answer is, given that news has been horribly biased and corrupt since the very beginning of Hearst news (I recall reading how stories were biased toward mining interests early on), and wiki quotes this:

    Following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany, the Nazis received positive press coverage by Hearst presses and paid ten times the standard subscription rate for the INS wire service belonging to Hearst.[23] William Randolph Hearst personally instructed his reporters in Germany to only give positive coverage to Hitler and the Nazis, and fired journalists who refused to write stories favourable of German fascism.[23]

    (I’ve read sources other than Wiki’s footnotes on this claim, so consider it valid)