General Discussion

It's probably not good news for smaller production companies worldwide that have been Netflix's bread and butter. It's very likely to raise prices for no-advertising Netflix subscribers.

Other than professional sports, the advertising supported cable-channel kind of stuff is easy to make these days and spread across essentially unlimited internet channels. New "free" streaming services open every day. The competition for that stuff is YouTube. There are plenty of independently produced home and garden, cooking, automotive, scientific, and technical shows on YouTube that match or exceed the quality of cable television programming of the past.

News and opinion shows are a bad fit for Netflix. Television is a terrible medium for news and opinion anyways and it always has been, even in the supposedly golden age of Walter Cronkite.