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As someone else has said it is publicly funded, it's the same with Australia's ABC news [1]. When you watch it on TV, I guess there are ads for its own shows but other than that they are not allowed run ads. Funnily there are ads shown on its stories on apple news, I always wondered if that was in some violation of the Australia Broadcasting Corporation Act [2].

[1]: https://www.abc.net.au [2]: https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A02723/2022-02-18/2022-0...

heyo! you responded to a comment I made two months ago complimenting my personal site (https://concourse.codes & https://borice.exposed) and asking if I made the pixel art myself. I'm not sure how HackerNews notifications work so I'm just seeing it and wanted to say thank you, and also no, sadly, I did not make the pixel art myself. I am learning how as a separate endeavor, but in this case I fine-tuned midjourney on a set of windows 98 icons and then fed it photos of various things that I wanted to convert to pixel art. It works quite well and is fun tbh. anyways, thanks again & hope you're doing well <3

This reply was unexpected but a nice surprise :)

I remember your site! I really like the consistent visual language, even if you didn't make the pixel art, at the very least they go well with your site. I entered my email on your other site, feel free to reach out or whatever, also this is my site https://akst.io

Hope you're doing well as well!

Yeah, I hope npr is still funded amidst the funding cut by the government.

Also:

[1] https://lite.cnn.com/

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news (at least when viewed from the UK)

The mobile version of BBC has ton of ads

When viewed from in the UK?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/questions/behind-the-scenes/ad...

Yes, when they are publicly funded.

Are you a regular donor?

In my country the government sponsors a national independent news organisation.

But this wouldn't work in America because it would immediately turn into Trump/Christian propaganda.

The concept of organising your own opposition because journalism is one of the pillars of democracy.

There is publicly-funded media in my country too. Guess how they lean politically.

> Guess how they lean politically.

I don't know. Tell me.

FWIW, our own publicly funded media tends to get criticised equally from fruitcakes at both ends of the political spectrum, so they are clearly doing something right!

At least from observations in my country, our publicly funded media news is right wing, but get called out by right wingers as not being right wing enough and (falsely claimed to be centrist/left wing because they mention a right wing politician being a pervert).

After enough complaints they manage to move the overton window and the news is slightly more right wing. Repeat.

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