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Supporting news with government money is horrible idea. Paying the fox to guard your henhouse and all that. Better move would be there force more government tr
by njharman 8y ago
Supporting news with government money is horrible idea. Paying the fox to guard your henhouse and all that.
Better move would be there force more government transparcy. So it doesn't require reporters digging around to find truth. Record sessions post all votes, actions, studies, proceeding etc. On line in easy to machine parse format. There are plenty of people who would analyse and report on that data for fun or out of sense of Civic duty. It happens now.
It's not perfect but a big step.
- Kye 8y agoI like to think a fox who's smart enough to handle money is smart enough to know an hour or two of pay could buy plenty of chicken without being hunted down and turned into a scarf.
- hakfoo 8y agoOn a national level, I wonder if you can use international rivalries to balance state-funded news. You know that BBC or a directly-government-funded PBS has one set of biases, but if you add the also-biased coverage of the same event from Xinhua or RT, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. I don't see it working for local news though-- there's not going to be multiple governments with balancing biases covering funds misappropiration in the local school district.