Yeah, but at least it's not government run media /s

I'm in Canada and I find the reporting of CBC and TVO to be fairly good - and I can only imagine the news landscape when all news is 100% privately corpo owned

Not to say either are beyond reproach when it comes to powerful special interests, but that only goes to show that monopolies are terrible and have unreasonable leverage and not some nihilistic comment on the nature of man or whatever.

Domestic billionaires doing this is okay, though?

For profit news is a plague

Good luck getting any reform that negatively impacts rich people

OTOH, Vice is a private company.

One could argue I guess that per country, international companies need to have distinct subsidiaries and those need to be fully owned and operated in that country only with no international cash flow.

But it'd be quite difficult to enforce, I'd imagine.

They've been a joke for years. Their best reporters left or got promoted out of the picture. Once Shane stopped going out on reports and Ben left, they were done.

I honestly don't remember that.

Yeah, people complain about this (rightfully so) but it's still worlds apart from the muzzled or murdered press in places like China and Russia.

Editors in Vice’s news division actively welcomed the piece, Lubbock said, as it fitted with the outlet’s track record of reporting on LGBTQ+ rights, autocratic regimes and the Middle East.

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"Their reporting claimed the Saudi state is helping families to harass and threaten transgender Saudis based overseas."

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"However, publication of the article was repeatedly postponed and then cancelled at the last minute. Multiple sources at Vice said it was pulled after a high-level intervention by senior Vice managers, who said its publication could pose a threat to the safety of the company’s staff working in Saudi Arabia."

One small upcoming one is Popular Front, but they seem to have a stronger focus on conflict reporting and the subcultures associated with it. Seems to be a Vice News for Gen Z.

I'm fairly sure the Guardian were accused of toning down human rights stories about one country (I think like Bahrain or Oman or Qatar maybe?) as they were running an advertising supplement for their tourism board. It was covered in Private Eye so I don't know if the article will be available online. So if I'm remembering that correctly, the Guardian have got a bit of a cheek here.