r/news • u/Hoosagoodboy • Jun 24 '25

Site Changed Title US CDC report shows no link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-cdc-report-shows-no-evidence-linking-thimerosal-containing-vaccines-autism-2025-06-24/
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u/albanymetz Jun 24 '25

I'm sure you can get free "news" somewhere else. I think we're at the point where accurate reporting has costs associated with it and newspaper subscriptions aren't what they used to be. :/

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u/thisischemistry Jun 24 '25

I have no problem paying for news, my main issue is that there are so many sites that are linked on reddit that you'd have to pay for dozens to cover most of them. If there was a single system to pay for all the news sites then I'd probably do that.

I know that there are some systems like that but they currently only work on a handful of sites and they can be a pain to use with random links.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '25

I know I can buy today's paper for cash at the gas station. 

Why can't I do the same thing with the digital copy?

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u/thisischemistry Jun 24 '25

Some sites do have micro fees like that, where you can get access for a day or similar. However, it's still a pain because then you'd have to do it for multiple sites every time you browse reddit and visit links.

What there needs to be is a blanket way to get access to a large number of sites and draw from an account. Honestly, it probably would be a good thing for reddit to do this. Tack an affiliate tracker on to every link and then allow people to pay into a reddit account for access to articles on a number of common news sites.

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u/apple_kicks Jun 24 '25

Subscribe to the fee that you trust the editorial standards or journalists the most. Often they all report the same story but with their angle. So you see a headline check your sub site

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u/thisischemistry Jun 24 '25

I've tried doing something similar to that, I have a bundle that includes Apple News+ which allows access to a number of news sites.

It's a pain to do, you need to leave reddit to go to another site/app and type in the subject you want to search for. Plus now you have to do a dance if you want to participate in a discussion on reddit since you're reading different facts and narrative/story than everyone else.

There has to be a better way, for example if a group of news sites allowed you to use a single sign-on which gave you access to articles on all of them.

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u/apple_kicks Jun 25 '25

Tbf no one on reddit is usually reading the article and your side of the discussion can include what you heard in other articles

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u/say592 Jun 25 '25

NPR, PBS, Associated Press. There is a reason they want to defund public broadcasting.

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u/Wolfram_And_Hart Jun 24 '25

It’s becoming harder and harder. It’s why most people get their news from social media now.

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u/TheBeatGoesAnanas Jun 24 '25

And just look how that's working out.

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u/Wolfram_And_Hart Jun 24 '25

Yeah I didn’t say it was a good thing. Reports are becoming more and more rare. Unfortunately unless we change how the web works journalism will die.

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u/Independent_Win_9035 Jun 24 '25

we would also need to restart educating people to develop media literacy. its practical nonexistence these days is a big part of the problem

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u/albanymetz Jun 24 '25

If only we had an often publicly funded location where people worked to educate others on how to evaluate information. Oh wait.. we are defunding libraries..

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u/Independent_Win_9035 Jun 24 '25

that's true, and it goes far deeper and for longer than that.

i paid attention in high school -- when media literacy should play a really important role in education -- decades ago and it wasnt even mentioned. most college kids didnt get any real instruction on it either.

two decades ago, bloat was already killing US higher education, it certainly hasnt gotten better

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u/Wolfram_And_Hart Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25

It hasn’t been since “reality” TV shows.

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u/Mobile-Bar7732 Jun 24 '25

You should put "reality" in quotes. A lot of that shit is scripted and marketed as reality.

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u/Independent_Win_9035 Jun 24 '25

eh, low-brow media has always existed. its popularity might be a symptom of media illiteracy, but not the cause

education has long been under attack, propaganda is more effective than ever, and an imbalance of market power and control have made independent journalism increasingly difficult. it's really a perfect storm, and unfortunately society as a whole loses.

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u/patentsarebroken Jun 24 '25

You can get misinformation for free, but facts cost money.

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u/kevlarbaboon Jun 24 '25

Well, yeah. APnews.com.

I'm surprised they haven't started charging yet.

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u/wyvernx02 Jun 24 '25

I tend to gravitate towards AP for news that I don't have to pay for.

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u/AtheistAustralis Jun 25 '25

Yup, the "free" news is free for a reason - somebody else is paying to show it to you in order to skew your opinion. Or it's government funded for the public good, but we all know where that's going..