I'd probably have to listen to the whole Ted talk for my unbiased version of what she is getting at. I take it that she is saying the a news source doesn't have to always have the absolute truth, but it has to be good enough for enough of the people to offer some degree of trustworthiness and reliability. And among that degree there should be some common grounds for progress, even with some disagreements. Like we've talked about here before, there is no one particular news offering that is absolutely perfect and all of them have their influencing benefactors among those holding the cards of money and power. Some just have better influences than others. I know I have to get my news from more than one place to come to my conclusions.

I'm not too sure what that has to do with the funding of public radio or TV? One other reason I like it is that I don't get the ads for O-O-O-Ozempic and Burt Law (we don't get paid until you do).