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The Government should guarantee the creation informative news, or what people usually call "hot news" (a tsunami, who's new president, a new law that changed, a
by pouta 8y ago
The Government should guarantee the creation informative news, or what people usually call "hot news" (a tsunami, who's new president, a new law that changed, anything that is essential to keep the community informed).
It already happens in Portugal for eg. LUSA News Agency is a funded by the Government in order to guarantee exactly what I just described. LUSA is not perfect but it's role should be treated as a public good.
- dredmorbius 8y agoThere's a surprising history here of which most people are almost wholly ignorant. Robert W. McChesney is among the few scholars who've explored this in depth in the US, see for example: "The Debate Over Public Policy and the Emergence of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States, 1927-1935" http://www.thebhc.org/sites/default/files/beh/BEHprint/v021/p0171-p0181.pdf http://www.thebhc.org/sites/default/files/beh/BEHprint/v021/... When the BBC was formed in the UK, the concept of allowing media ownership to be in the hands of private corporations was considered unthinkable. Government funding has its own set of considerations, though in balance it seems generally preferable, most especially if funding and control are separated.