> Their reporting will never support going against their own best interests. Even if that's true, wouldn't their budget be the only thing that applies? If yo

> Their reporting will never support going against their own best interests. Even if that's true, wouldn't their budget be the only thing that applies? If you could guarantee that NPR/PBS/BBC/CBC/ABC was a completely independent entity, publicly funded but otherwise completely divorced from the government, then the only issue with which they would have a direct conflict of interest would be themselves / their budget. That seems like a much better situation than what we currently have, where only large multinational corporations fund media, and therefore almost everything is a conflict of interest every single day.