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TutleCpt a day ago

404 Media is doing a much better job at breaking major stories than mainstream media. Nice.

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JumpCrisscross a day ago | parent | next [-]

There was a time when they were a shadow banned source on HN. Glad someone sane intervened.

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Terr_ a day ago | parent [-]

AFAICT in ~Dec 2024 the reasoning was that they had a paywall.

I don't know what percentage of their articles were behind a paywall back then, or the relative change to now. (Well, except for the fact that clearly some of their stuff is public today since we're looking at it.)

If I had my 'druthers, "paywall" and "register-wall" would be little icons on individual submissions. Then people would choose whether to upvote a more-accessible option instead, whether the hard-to-read stuff was still important enough to commenting on, etc.

	▲	rvz a day ago \| parent [-]
		Correct. The general rule is that if an article doesn't have a paywall, that is fine to post. If it's completely paywalled with no other archived link to post, then that specific HN post gets [dead].

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fg137 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

404 Media is one of the few news organizations that actually file FOIA and fight for information in courtrooms.

By comparison, the likes of the Verge only run the most mainstream kind of articles. There is no deep, technical analysis of any complex topic. The most technical stuff they post may be those benchmarks they run for laptops. And they certainly don't file for FOIA despite how much (negative) coverage they do for US government agencies -- they leave the hard work to others.

(A quick Google search will confirm all of above.

And put your objections in comments instead of downvotes you cowards.)

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Tangurena2 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Mainstream media is all owned by right wing billionaires. Who do everything they can to appease the orange guy.

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BLKNSLVR a day ago | parent | next [-]

Also true for all the frontier AI labs, who seem to be run by, essentially, clones of each other.

The US seems to breed this particular 'set' with remarkable consistency.

	▲	sneak 17 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. The choice is play ball with the USG, or be dead in the water. Once you’re large enough, simply abiding by the laws is insufficient to remain unmolested - you must actively play ball or you’ll find that suddenly a TON of regulations now apply to you that didn’t before. Do you think Apple or SpaceX like dealing with the NSA/CSS/CIA? Or the CCP for that matter? (Apple has backdoored all of iCloud in China for the CCP to be allowed to operate there.) Coinbase and the IRS is one. All the telcos turn over all call metadata and IP backbone taps to the feds without a warrant. Google Joseph Nacchio to see what happens if they don’t. They’re the only game in town, and you gotta play by their rules if you want to operate at scale at all. No amount of billions of private money will get Trump and his administration un-pissed-off at you. It’s not a free market, all large industries entirely serve exclusively at the pleasure of the court. This is why we overpay for broadband in every major market, why we overpay for mobile data nationwide, why retail banking sucks, etc.
	▲	nonethewiser a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You would classify Altman and Dario as right wing? Jev get in here.

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alt227 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is that why lots of large American media companies have just banded together to boycott the Presidents White House coverage?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje3rezd92y3o

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Tangurena2 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Bluntly, Trump banning CNN is a violation of the First Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_...

And the boycott is to deliberately inflict a narcissistic injury to Trump. His attempt to create a state-owned news outlet is an attempt to reduce/minimize that injury. Personally, I think the best defense by the media would be to display his senile rambling conversations - show everyone how insane his actual words are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_injury

From Trump's first political strategist in 2018:

> "The Democrats don't matter... The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

> For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...

	▲	alt227 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> the boycott is to deliberately inflict a narcissistic injury to Trump OK, so that completely contradicts your statement that they do "everything they can to appease the orange guy".

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autoexec a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Even those in mainstream media who aren't ideologically aligned face pressure from threats and retaliation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump's_conflict_with_t...

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fragmede a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Which is a really lazy way of looking at the world. If you haven't been paying attention, Trump kicked CNN and a couple others out of the press room, and the rest of the networks banded together to say "nu uh". That's not to say the head of the board of media companies aren't compromised, just that there's more nuance than that.

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johnnyApplePRNG a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean ... that's kind of literally their name ... (not found media)