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I don't think you're wrong in general principle, but... > The fix is to make news the forth estate officially It's difficult for me to see how formally establ
by InitialLastName 5y ago
I don't think you're wrong in general principle, but...
> The fix is to make news the forth estate officially
It's difficult for me to see how formally establishing the main-stream media as a branch of government would do anything to improve the credibility of the news.
- jay_kyburz 5y agoIf we can do it for the law and order I think we can do it for information.
- InitialLastName 5y agoI'm not saying we can't do it, I'm saying I don't see what it improves. And just to mention, we also have problems in our society with the centralization and expanding powers of law and order in our government. Maybe that isn't the best example of "we centralized that, and now everything is OK!".
- jay_kyburz 5y agoI also suggested pushing more power down to the local state and and city councils. Less concentration. I didn't have it in my list above, but one thing capitalism did get right is that humans are self interested and motivated by competition. We need some of that competition in our public services so that the individuals who run them can be rewarded for doing a god job (whatever that might mean.)