Comment by snarf21
2 days ago
I fear that in the last decade, even the PBSs of the world have pulled back. They still create content but they have been very loathe to come out against any interest that the billionaire philanthropists might object to.
I don't know too much about PBS specifically, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are not immune to Elite Capture¹
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_capture
woof, that article. The examples section doesn't contain a single concrete example and after reading the whole thing I can't tell whether they're talking about academics publishing news articles or congress' revolving door. Wikipedia has been struggling lately. Maybe that's what they're talking about.
effort.
"Andersen et al. 2022 found that about 7.5 percent of foreign aid is diverted by elites." etc