@_dm I don’t think it’s so binary, independent vs not. I think newsrooms do strive for independence, but imperfectly. Sponsorship does color a general procorporate slant, I think. They are better about guarding against bias towards particular advertisers, because frankly they have a diversity of potential advertisers, so they can afford it. They can’t diversify across political regime though, re both risk of harrassment and to access, so that does color coverage.