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It really does bring up though questions though, like when you look at the current administration and what they have done with the White House press office. Ima
by verall 8y ago
It really does bring up though questions though, like when you look at the current administration and what they have done with the White House press office. Imagine if there existed a well-respected and trusted national news outfit that was suddenly being run by Sarah Huckabee Sanders. With the normal United States executive branch spoils system it would be a shitshow. It'd have to be like 4th branch of government or at least run separately like the Fed does.
- babyloneleven 8y agoIt shouldn't be part of the Executive but its own branch, as independent as the judiciary
- icelancer 8y ago> independent as the judiciary In theory or in practice, because what we have now (and what many would argue we have always had) is not very independent.
- jaredklewis 8y agoHow is it going to work? The judiciary is nominated by the executive, which I can’t see working well for this. Presidents from both parties would universally opt to staff the branch with journalists that were soft on government and politicians in general. Same problem if they get appointed by congress. As for elections, yea what could go wrong there? America is pretty level headed. We would never elect some kind of partisan maniac to an important position like this. All the branches of government are inherently political.
- michaelt 8y agoWell, this is strictly theoretical. I can't imagine our politicians wanting to launch a news service, let alone an unbiased one. But if they did, one option would be to hire an editorial board from nationally esteemed people from outside the political system. You know, draw the membership from Nobel prize winning scientists and authors, Olympic medal winners, people like that. They would then hire and oversee journalists who knew how to journalism. If you're worried that would lead to olympic medals becoming politically biased, you could have the committee appoint their own replacements. "Entirely unbiased" may be impossible, but "relatively less biased than Fox News or The Guardian" sounds achievable.
- ep103 8y agoBasically, we should fund PBS
- whenchamenia 8y agoHe said unbiased. No matter the quality of reporting, NPR has a clear bias. As does BBC for that matter, even less obscured.
- ep103 8y agoBasically, we should fund PBS to BBC levels
- otalp 8y agoSenior Judges are appointed by the executive
- twiceaday 8y agoWhat if the runner-up party in the election somehow ran it?