PUBLIC MEDIA - NECESSARY OR NOT?
SHOULD PUBLIC MEDIA BE WHOLLY PUBLIC SUPPORTED?
There are questions about NPR and PBS being truly unbiased reporting, considering that they are 90% corporate funded, and only 10% publicly funded.
Therefore, the questions are:
If we believe that the free flow of factual and unbiased information is requisite to maintaining a free and independent people , with a democratic styled government, that we can not get that from coporate owned media, how do we insure ourselves of that free flow of factual and unbiased information.
Do we remodel NPR and PBS, and fund them exclusively with public money,
or,
Do we defund them, and form new public media from the ground up.
However we decide these questions, if we decide to have public media, we must determine how it can be funded without it succumbing to the pressure and influence of politically motivated and constantly changing government administrations. We certainly need truth in publishing laws, in general. Perhaps with entitlement funding, like in the style of social security, public media can function without the acute risk of administrative influence.
Of course, the corporate right will continue to allege that public media; even as it now exists, is dominated by left wing liberal "elites". It is evident that whomever speaks on behalf of the people, will always be viewed as liberal left activists, by the corporate right, who desire to keep the people perpetually uninformed. It is also characteristic of corporate right projection, that they refer to those speaking and acting on behalf of the people, as the elite. If they can sell some, on the guilt of possibly being some form of elite, then perhaps it distracts some from their perpetual campaign and fight to insure that they are the true elite; of wealth and stealth, anyway.
There are questions about NPR and PBS being truly unbiased reporting, considering that they are 90% corporate funded, and only 10% publicly funded.
Therefore, the questions are:
If we believe that the free flow of factual and unbiased information is requisite to maintaining a free and independent people , with a democratic styled government, that we can not get that from coporate owned media, how do we insure ourselves of that free flow of factual and unbiased information.
Do we remodel NPR and PBS, and fund them exclusively with public money,
or,
Do we defund them, and form new public media from the ground up.
However we decide these questions, if we decide to have public media, we must determine how it can be funded without it succumbing to the pressure and influence of politically motivated and constantly changing government administrations. We certainly need truth in publishing laws, in general. Perhaps with entitlement funding, like in the style of social security, public media can function without the acute risk of administrative influence.
Of course, the corporate right will continue to allege that public media; even as it now exists, is dominated by left wing liberal "elites". It is evident that whomever speaks on behalf of the people, will always be viewed as liberal left activists, by the corporate right, who desire to keep the people perpetually uninformed. It is also characteristic of corporate right projection, that they refer to those speaking and acting on behalf of the people, as the elite. If they can sell some, on the guilt of possibly being some form of elite, then perhaps it distracts some from their perpetual campaign and fight to insure that they are the true elite; of wealth and stealth, anyway.
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