Yesterday while on errands public radio announced that "The Hill" has laid off the staff's of their DEI, climate, and migration departments, supposedly to keep on the king's good side. Then while watching 60 minutes, which had been a routine in my house for a long time, there was an excellent feature on the services that were being cut from the NIH. Research and trials for things like dementia and cancer. Thousands of jobs and billions in research. Then, at the end, Scott Pelley gave an emotional goodbye to their 37 year executive producer, Bill Owens. Owens resigned due to increasing pressure from their parent company, Paramount, to control content. My bit of looking up said much of it goes back to the 10 billion dollar frivolous law suit against 60 minutes over the Harris interview. Catching up local news, Colorado Public Radio's web sight had an appeal to save Public radio from cutbacks.

I don't subscribe, but check on the Washington Post headlines occasionally. Ss far as I can tell, they still seem fairly objective, despite Bezos. I've never seen "X", but gather it's no spot for gathering news, but more like a place for high level people to squabble. It does seem to have a large following, for what reason I'm not sure. I assume Hannity and Tucker Carlson still have popularity in spreading conspiracy theory, even though they now have their way if things. I'm starting to wonder if independent news coverage will come from places like substack. I've not seen any changes in the NYT reporting, but Krugman left under increasing control of content from their management.