More state media is a good idea. If telling the truth is no longer profitable, then some kind of non-profit institution must step up, and the government is a g

More state media is a good idea. If telling the truth is no longer profitable, then some kind of non-profit institution must step up, and the government is a good way to get funding. In the U.S., we have always had NPR as a publicly-funded alternative. It has become a lightning-rod, however, accused of being biased or being propaganda for the deep state, etc. And really, what would be a good proof that it is not biased? We don't really want to anoint a Minister of Truth. Who gets to say what is and what isn't biased?? Private competition is a way, and, when media companies competed on how credible they were, i.e. the most accurate news sources got the most money, it worked pretty good. But now they simply cannot compete on credibility, because its just too damn expensive to be accurate. What to do? I don't know, but I'm not willing to just dismiss Australia's laws out of hand as being axiomatically evil. At least they are trying to do something.