Like PBS or NPR or are they saying more should be. I think a better route is consequences for lying and calling yourself an entertainment company in court but having news in your name.
It sounds like a great idea until you think about if Trump had gotten a hold of it while he was in office. If we were guaranteed no trump like figures in our future, then I would say both.
Only about 15% of PBS and 1% of NPR come from federal funding. The vast majority of both come directly from community, non-profit, and corporate support. The Voice of America is the only state funded media.
There is a separate discussion about whether or not that is actually good for a society, or just adds a path for state-influenced propaganda.
Like PBS or NPR or are they saying more should be. I think a better route is consequences for lying and calling yourself an entertainment company in court but having news in your name.
¿por qué no los dos?
It sounds like a great idea until you think about if Trump had gotten a hold of it while he was in office. If we were guaranteed no trump like figures in our future, then I would say both.
They’d be some of the better tools to keep someone like trump from getting in power. Nothing is safe anywhere when someone like trump is in power.
Both fair points.
One of the major problems with PBS and NPR is they aren’t publicly funded enough so they have to get a lot of funding from billionaires’ foundations.
Oh no, please, let the billionaires keep their money! They worked so hard for it.
When their foundations fund NPR, that’s the editorial line that gets taken, yes.
Only about 15% of PBS and 1% of NPR come from federal funding. The vast majority of both come directly from community, non-profit, and corporate support. The Voice of America is the only state funded media.
There is a separate discussion about whether or not that is actually good for a society, or just adds a path for state-influenced propaganda.
It looks like NPR is more like 8% but they’re both still way lower than I thought. https://gigafact.org/fact-briefs/does-npr-receive-less-1-its-funding-directly-federal-government
I think in a perfect world you’d have access to both and both public and private funded news would be around the same in popularity.
I think the issue in the US right now is that it’s pretty much only private and no public funded news.