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"Who do you think should sponsor the creation of arts and the publication of news?" The government is the obvious choice. The USA already has the National Endo
by lkrubner 8y ago
"Who do you think should sponsor the creation of arts and the publication of news?"
The government is the obvious choice. The USA already has the National Endowment for the Arts, which is a good start but it needs vastly more money. The important thing is that the NEA has none of the corrupting biases that afflict companies such as Google and Facebook.
Most Western countries have some equivalent for the NEA.
- mythrwy 8y agoYou don't see any conflict of interest with the government being a main sponsor of publication of news?
- lkrubner 8y agoDo you see any conflict of interest between the government appointing judges who will then, at some point during their career, probably hear civil lawsuits against the government? The independence of the judiciary developed throughout the 1500s and 1600s and then finally, in Britain, was consolidated into a formal principle with the Act Of Settlement of 1706. And since that time, the principle of independent appointees of the government carrying out government functions is an idea that has spread to other areas of government. We can certainly put in place guarantees of an independent NEA.
- votepaunchy 8y agoHave you considered that an independent judiciary has been aided by an independent media? Who will watch the watchers and all.
- mythrwy 8y agoTo me, what you are saying sounds more akin to government mandated attorneys for litigants in civil suits though, not judges. And yes, I would see that being an issue.