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Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded
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Ridiculous. Publicly funded means propaganda for the state. It's a No for me, dawg.
Plenty of private companies get public funding and say and do whatever they want. We already have PBS and NPR, we should just increase their budgets.
I disagree. PBS and NPR have deep political biases in their programming. Either remove the biases, or scrap the programs. I don't need entities telling me how to think, I will review facts and come to my own conclusions.
As for private companies that get public funding...that's a bit vague, so I can't comment on that.
If you think NPR and PBS have deep political biases you aren’t reviewing the facts correctly.
If you think they don't have deep political biases, you need to step out of your echo chamber and breathe some fresh air.
Agree with this, too. The very reason why it used to work was because of the notion and protection of "the free press." Now that competition in journalism is so fierce, surprisingly, the quality has gone down, not up, as one might expect. Some may disagree with this, but it's the way I see it. When I read an article from a journalist, it's either very shallow, missing answers to some very obvious questions, or it's heavily opinionated with regard to politics. Or all three! You may or may not agree, but that's my experience and opinion thus far.
What if it was regulated and had to be run non-profit or maybe corporations are forced to fund third party journalistic orgs?
EDIT: I read the article after I posted (ex-Redditer here) and suggests things like tax credits if people subscribe to news outlets and some other interesting ideas.
They are definitely aware of the propaganda dangers. I suggest checking it out if you haven't, it's interesting.
I think journalism is struggling because of pandering to political affiliations; Fox News to the Conservatives, Everyone else to the Liberals. Each is alienating a large readership base (and certain advertising corporations) unnecessarily.
I completely agree. Reminds me of regulatory capture in a way. Whatever kept journalists honest, non-biased, and integrity-filled has disappeared. Is there any way to fix it?
I don't know how to fix it. I used to think Social Media was the answer; getting information from non legacy sources. Instead, it just creates deeper echo chambers and people grow further apart. Conservatives call their opponents Woke Socialists, Liberals label everyone that disagrees with them Nazis/Fascists. We need some grownups in the room.