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BBC is pretty good, as well as NPR. News companies are mostly collapsing. The only viable way to keep in private hands might be the Guardian model, of a trust
by johnea 2y ago
BBC is pretty good, as well as NPR.
News companies are mostly collapsing. The only viable way to keep in private hands might be the Guardian model, of a trust established in it's name.
Bozo could certainly afford to do that for the Wash Post, instead they're leading the race to the bottom with firings and more for-profit articles.
- gottorf 2y agoI don't know, Uri Berliner's critique of NPR was pretty spot-on, at least from n=1 of this former longtime listener. I found it increasingly difficult to stomach the lopsided coverage that no longer stuck to just the facts, but rather what to think and how to feel about them.
- AlbertCory 2y agoNeither of your comparisons is true, as I've detailed elsewhere in this thread.
- dredmorbius 2y agoI'd be interested in what if any media sources you find to be unbiased, and, more importantly, why they are that way (as in causally, not as in descriptive characteristics). The following would address specifically how (or if) journalistic business / financing models need reform.
- AlbertCory 2y agoSo you're conceding that NPR and BBC are biased? Or you just want to argue? As for journalistic business / financing models: public financing will never be anything but a tool of the power structure (whether or not they happen to be in formal power at the moment). Private financing sometimes works, but doesn't at the moment.
- dredmorbius 2y agoI don't want to argue, I'd like to know what you believe and why. You're welcome to share or not. What isn't a tool of the power structure? What of advertising (see the I.F. Stone interview I've posted elsewhere in this thread), or of philanthropy (take your pick of benefactors)?