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HBO Ending Its Nightly Newscast Produced by Vice Media

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I really liked Vice's in-depth international coverage of Vice. With Trump tweet obsessed 24/7 news TV it's really easy to lose the big picture of everything else going on in the world.

Yes. I think they made a classic mistake of raising too much money, expanding too quickly and not staying hungry. VBS.TV and early VICE were good; at least before they moved their HQ, they were cratering.

I'd like to see much more of sustainable, non-profit journalism that only raises anonymous, no-strings donor money and subscriber donations to stay afloat because this is really the only way out of the ad-supported corporate MSM abandoned fourth estate hell.

Any recommendations for a 20-30 min daily international news program without advertisements?

Democracy Now Top U.S. & World News Headlines summary every weekday morning. Available on YouTube. Example: https://youtu.be/0X0-MpFZ-Ds

That's closer to opinion than news.

PBS Newshour, but it's weekly.

Patriot Act on Netflix/Youtube (25 min deep dives on a single topic such as the recent elections in India), but it's delivered in a semi-comedic way, which you might not like.

"Daily" would be tough, as it takes time, money and high quality editing to put out well-researched, unique quality content. There's a reason 24/7 news channels are mostly talking heads stretching out daily minutiae into hours-long segments and panel discussions.

PBS newshour is daily what are you talking about

My mistake, I thought it was a weekly thing.

The one part of Vice that was still amazing and worth every bit of our attention. Sad to see it go. I ask the question: do we need more Succesion and Billions at the expense of something actually worthwhile?

Billions is not on HBO.

Oh snap you're right, how have I never noticed that?? I mean my point stands about Succesion but I have to eat my words here about Billions.

Those shows that provide entertainment are the reason hbo could show anything by vice in the first place. Do we need more sopranos? GoT? The wire? Deadwood? Carnival? Etc.

That's the whole point of HBO. Entertainment that at least tries to be high quality. Will succession meet that mark? No idea, they're only one season in. But if they fail they will not be the first hbo show to do so.

I should've been more clear about what I meant, I find Billions and Succession to be in a similar vein of narratives about the upper echelons of society complaining about 1pcer 1st world problems was thinking HBO has egregiously continued footing the bill for the same content, albeit entertaining for some but woefully boring for me. But my entire point is deflated because HBO is clearly not producing both shows. In short, I'm a reactionary keyboard warrior talking about my ass about something subjective. My apologies.

And I also clearly cant type.

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