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Seems like the fourth estate is being formalized and exercising taxation power. How likely will they be to want to anger government now, if government can cut
by cma 3y ago
Seems like the fourth estate is being formalized and exercising taxation power. How likely will they be to want to anger government now, if government can cut them off?
That was always a risk with state supported media, but now that it will apply to all commercial media that appears on Facebook or Google news..
- gmerc 3y agoMany countries have tax funded public television. In many countries one could argue that public television (BBC,CBC,ARD,ZDF,NPR,etc) carry generally high quality programming and often hard hitting investigative features compared to private interests. Government, as professional public service, does not have to mean executive branch and laws for separation of power exist
- cscurmudgeon 3y agoYour thoughts on Voice of America, Russia Today, Global Times?
- gmerc 3y agoYou forgot Radio Free Europe. Notably none of those were operated by countries to inform their own population, so I am not sure why you would mix these into the term public television.
- cscurmudgeon 3y agoI am not sure why you keep changing the definition. The original point was on govt. funded news outlets. The part about "to inform their own population" is secondary and irrelevant, especially if it is available online.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> part about "to inform their own population" is secondary and irrelevant It’s obviously relevant. If I’m paying for your news, I probably have an agenda. If I’m paying for my own news, I probably want to be informed.
- putazo00 3y ago[flagged]
- Georgelemental 3y agoI don't know, my experience with my country's publicly funded media (which is in your list) is that they carry worthless regime propaganda while badmouthing anyone who questions prevailing orthodoxies.
- murphyslaw 3y ago[flagged]