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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
True.
The number one system there may be a free press with enough financial resources to inform the public about all sorts of bad governance around the world.
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There was an episode in the first season of "Newsroom" where the news anchor described some early legislation involving the FCC where they mandated that every network give a 30 minute news broadcast daily. But, he said, they made the mistake of not requiring that that 30 minutes be ad free. And that eventually resulted in networks pushing the most dramatic news; the news that would get the biggest audience, instead of just giving the public a picture of the state of things.
I think that's the answer to your suggestion. The free press is no longer "free". It's pandering to the audience and it's not doing it's job and that's partly why we're having a lot of the problems we're having. Nobody believes any news except the one they choose to watch and they're even skeptical of that one. And with good reason
Barry