• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    By taxpayers, at arms length from government control.

    The moment there’s a profit motive in news, it will skew what gets shown to people and not for their benefit.

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      5 months ago

      This is the only answer I’m okay with. Keeping government away from it would be a challenge, but an easier challenge to handle than our current cesspool of for-profit media companies.

      Same with elections, they should be fully funded by taxpayers, and not a single cent of private money should enter the equation. Depending on the office and the size of its constituency, every candidate gets the exact same amount. You accept a dollar from a corp? You’re automatically disqualified. Imagine how much harder candidates would have to work for their votes.

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      5 months ago

      The problem with that (from a country that has a govt funded channel with news programs) is that if they start being overly critical of a political party when that party gets in they reduce funding.

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        5 months ago

        Yea, it should be a charter/constitution specified percentage of all government revenue. Then they can’t fuck with it easily.

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      5 months ago

      Would you invision that to be similar to something like PBS but fully funded from government sources?

      • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        More like the way the CBC or BBC are funded, though I’d like a little bit more distance from the government in terms of who’s controlling it.