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The profit motive does a poor job of handling the externalities journalism should be addressing. But govt control of the media landscape to the degree you're ta
by wutbrodo 4y ago
The profit motive does a poor job of handling the externalities journalism should be addressing. But govt control of the media landscape to the degree you're talking about can easily hamstring the important adversarial function journalism has vis-a-vis govt.
It's a very hard problem, and there are no obvious or pat solutions.
- bsenftner 4y agoNot government control, more regulation in the form of transparencies towards what gets reported and what does not, protections for investigative news journalists and whistleblowers, and no more masquerading entertainment as news journalism. Just as cigarettes have warnings about lung health, Fox News should have warnings about "not journalism, entertainment and the political opinion of Robert Murdoch".