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I posted this because I am personally invested in the idea that we, the people, must become our own media.
We know we cannot rely on corporate owned media to work in our collective interests. Yet they will remain because they are useful to the ruling class.
I know lemmy is full of special people ;) but I have been impressed by the level of media savvy on display.
How do we improve the quality of our information diets in the face of blatant propaganda? It has become so obvious to many people, now.
As a stopgap, I have been relying mostly on National Public Radio and Associated Press.
How about Reuters and the AFP?
It's been a decade since I was selecting stories from wire services, and I don't often run into AFP in the wild. Reuters seems to still be decent, and I'd assume the same of AFP, but remember that one C-suite change can very rapidly see a decline in quality, so I don't want to say they're both fine lest something happened Thursday.