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Who are they held to rigorous standards by? There would need to be a another pure body to hold them to task, and so on indefinitely. If billionaires were contr
by AQuantized 6y ago
Who are they held to rigorous standards by? There would need to be a another pure body to hold them to task, and so on indefinitely.
If billionaires were controlling the purse strings, it seems unlikely they would be as willing to report negatively on them or their businesses either.
I'm unconvinced there is any way to deliver reasonably unbiased 'truth' journalistically
- ceilingcorner 6y agoPlenty of industries manage to self-regulate to an acceptable degree. And my idea was more: get anonymous donors to put $10 billion in an untouchable trust that funds a nonprofit news source, which is itself policed and funded by a separate anonymous trust. Full public transparency for everything. The legal mechanisms are available, even if the decency isn’t.