U.S. journalism needs to be treated as a “public good” like roads, schools and bridges
  • rebul@kbin.social
    116·
    1 year ago

    Ridiculous. Publicly funded means propaganda for the state. It’s a No for me, dawg.

    • phillaholic@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      Plenty of private companies get public funding and say and do whatever they want. We already have PBS and NPR, we should just increase their budgets.

      • rebul@kbin.social
        25·
        1 year ago

        I disagree. PBS and NPR have deep political biases in their programming. Either remove the biases, or scrap the programs. I don’t need entities telling me how to think, I will review facts and come to my own conclusions.

        As for private companies that get public funding…that’s a bit vague, so I can’t comment on that.

        • phillaholic@lemm.ee
          51·
          1 year ago

          If you think NPR and PBS have deep political biases you aren’t reviewing the facts correctly.

          • rebul@kbin.social
            24·
            1 year ago

            If you think they don’t have deep political biases, you need to step out of your echo chamber and breathe some fresh air.

      • rebul@kbin.social
        21·
        1 year ago

        I think journalism is struggling because of pandering to political affiliations; Fox News to the Conservatives, Everyone else to the Liberals. Each is alienating a large readership base (and certain advertising corporations) unnecessarily.

        • nkiru@lemm.ee
          3·
          1 year ago

          I completely agree. Reminds me of regulatory capture in a way. Whatever kept journalists honest, non-biased, and integrity-filled has disappeared. Is there any way to fix it?

          • rebul@kbin.social
            21·
            1 year ago

            I don’t know how to fix it. I used to think Social Media was the answer; getting information from non legacy sources. Instead, it just creates deeper echo chambers and people grow further apart. Conservatives call their opponents Woke Socialists, Liberals label everyone that disagrees with them Nazis/Fascists. We need some grownups in the room.

    • nkiru@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      Agree with this, too. The very reason why it used to work was because of the notion and protection of “the free press.” Now that competition in journalism is so fierce, surprisingly, the quality has gone down, not up, as one might expect. Some may disagree with this, but it’s the way I see it. When I read an article from a journalist, it’s either very shallow, missing answers to some very obvious questions, or it’s heavily opinionated with regard to politics. Or all three! You may or may not agree, but that’s my experience and opinion thus far.