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This is true and that's why the US should have a publicly funded, independent (think judiciary and national bank) news organization similar to the BBC in the UK
by sunstone 7y ago
This is true and that's why the US should have a publicly funded, independent (think judiciary and national bank) news organization similar to the BBC in the UK. As it is, there's a plausible reason to question the motives of any of the news sources that are available to US citizens in their country.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThat nearly happened, but the US went one way, the UK another. This is the topic of Robert W. McChesney's Telecommunications, Mass Media & Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935: https://www.worldcat.org/title/telecommunications-mass-media-democracy-the-battle-for-the-control-of-us-broadcasting-1928-1935/oclc/794531469 https://www.worldcat.org/title/telecommunications-mass-media...