I worked on a couple productions by Whakaata Māori, good memories.
News are not what they were supposed to be. (Man, the Newsroom was a fun show). Current models pretty much deserve to die. But it won’t, they won’t let it. It’s a too important piece of the PR puzzle. Alternative news at the moment is maybe even worse than mainstream, it’s so cheap it becomes easy for some to flood their content.
Nostr has much to offer in terms of dreaming new models of news. I got stuck in some heated revolt in Thailand years ago. To try to make sense of what was going on around me it was important that I could see the same event under multiple angles, be it with videos of the clashes or ideological angles with the reports. Finding and « vetting » the info was time consuming, nostr can make the same process light speed.