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Should there be a news company funded using taxpayer dollars?

Whould we have taxpayer funded news stations?

  • yes

    Votes: 11 27.5%

  • no

    Votes: 25 62.5%

  • not sure

    Votes: 4 10.0%
  • Total voters
    40
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Masterhawk

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The problem with news corporations such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC is that they focus too much on little stories (yeah it's sad that a mom would let her daughter be raped and killed but let's be honest, it's an isolated incident). I personally don't mind little stories as long as they are part of a bigger issue. For example the 15 year old girl in Ohio who's in police custody for killing her abusive father. She could be in jail and not be released until she is 21. It is part of a bigger issue that juveniles from abusive families harsh penalties. Profit news stations also focus almost solely on the mainstream party and almost never the third parties or even candidates who aren't in the lead (such as Bernie Sanders).

In my opinion, the news companies focus too much on trying to grab your attention and not enough on actual news.

An example of a taxpayer funded news station is BBC.
 
Masterhawk said:
The problem with news corporations such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC is that they focus too much on little stories (yeah it's sad that a mom would let her daughter be raped and killed but let's be honest, it's an isolated incident). I personally don't mind little stories as long as they are part of a bigger issue. For example the 15 year old girl in Ohio who's in police custody for killing her abusive father. She could be in jail and not be released until she is 21. It is part of a bigger issue that juveniles from abusive families harsh penalties. Profit news stations also focus almost solely on the mainstream party and almost never the third parties or even candidates who aren't in the lead (such as Bernie Sanders).

In my opinion, the news companies focus too much on trying to grab your attention and not enough on actual news.

An example of a taxpayer funded news station is BBC.
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Canada has the CBC. The US has NPR and PBS
 
Masterhawk said:
The problem with news corporations such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC is that they focus too much on little stories (yeah it's sad that a mom would let her daughter be raped and killed but let's be honest, it's an isolated incident). I personally don't mind little stories as long as they are part of a bigger issue. For example the 15 year old girl in Ohio who's in police custody for killing her abusive father. She could be in jail and not be released until she is 21. It is part of a bigger issue that juveniles from abusive families harsh penalties. Profit news stations also focus almost solely on the mainstream party and almost never the third parties or even candidates who aren't in the lead (such as Bernie Sanders).

In my opinion, the news companies focus too much on trying to grab your attention and not enough on actual news.

An example of a taxpayer funded news station is BBC.
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I know it is not a trick question, but reality puts a twist on it. In 1977 the Church Senate Committee found 400+ CIA agents/assets planted in MSM inside the USA. Those agents/assets are paid and that is gov't funded. Since no action was taken by the gov't and CIA budgets have multiplied by many factors, one must assume logically that the number of agents/assets have multiplied accordingly. What do they do in a newsroom? The same thing the KGB did in Russian newsrooms, for sure. Control the narrative. I don't think gov'ts should have anything to do with MSM, including funding because they always attach strings to "control the narrative." Just my opinion mixed with some reality.
 
Masterhawk said:
The problem with news corporations such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC is that they focus too much on little stories (yeah it's sad that a mom would let her daughter be raped and killed but let's be honest, it's an isolated incident). I personally don't mind little stories as long as they are part of a bigger issue. For example the 15 year old girl in Ohio who's in police custody for killing her abusive father. She could be in jail and not be released until she is 21. It is part of a bigger issue that juveniles from abusive families harsh penalties. Profit news stations also focus almost solely on the mainstream party and almost never the third parties or even candidates who aren't in the lead (such as Bernie Sanders).

In my opinion, the news companies focus too much on trying to grab your attention and not enough on actual news.

An example of a taxpayer funded news station is BBC.
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We need less government, not more government. We already owe 20 trillion dollars. RT is another example of government run media. Is that what we want?
 
Masterhawk said:
The problem with news corporations such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC is that they focus too much on little stories (yeah it's sad that a mom would let her daughter be raped and killed but let's be honest, it's an isolated incident). I personally don't mind little stories as long as they are part of a bigger issue. For example the 15 year old girl in Ohio who's in police custody for killing her abusive father. She could be in jail and not be released until she is 21. It is part of a bigger issue that juveniles from abusive families harsh penalties. Profit news stations also focus almost solely on the mainstream party and almost never the third parties or even candidates who aren't in the lead (such as Bernie Sanders).

In my opinion, the news companies focus too much on trying to grab your attention and not enough on actual news.

An example of a taxpayer funded news station is BBC.
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State run media is common in countries nobody in the United States should ever desire this country to be similar to.
 
Somerville said:
Canada has the CBC. The US has NPR and PBS
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Soon to loose much of there funding under Trumps budget, hopefully that will be corrected in the Congressional budget.
 
Masterhawk said:
The problem with news corporations such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC is that they focus too much on little stories (yeah it's sad that a mom would let her daughter be raped and killed but let's be honest, it's an isolated incident). I personally don't mind little stories as long as they are part of a bigger issue. For example the 15 year old girl in Ohio who's in police custody for killing her abusive father. She could be in jail and not be released until she is 21. It is part of a bigger issue that juveniles from abusive families harsh penalties. Profit news stations also focus almost solely on the mainstream party and almost never the third parties or even candidates who aren't in the lead (such as Bernie Sanders).

In my opinion, the news companies focus too much on trying to grab your attention and not enough on actual news.

An example of a taxpayer funded news station is BBC.
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When Appalachia was getting electrified and television the government developed The Learning Channel to bring educational TV to that part of the country. And TLC became the channel of Honey BooBoo.
Seems like another reason to keep government out of both education and media.
 
Moderate Right said:
We need less government, not more government. We already owe 20 trillion dollars. RT is another example of government run media. Is that what we want?
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Do you honestly think that NPR or the BBC is anything at all like RT?
 
Masterhawk said:
The problem with news corporations such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC is that they focus too much on little stories (yeah it's sad that a mom would let her daughter be raped and killed but let's be honest, it's an isolated incident). I personally don't mind little stories as long as they are part of a bigger issue. For example the 15 year old girl in Ohio who's in police custody for killing her abusive father. She could be in jail and not be released until she is 21. It is part of a bigger issue that juveniles from abusive families harsh penalties. Profit news stations also focus almost solely on the mainstream party and almost never the third parties or even candidates who aren't in the lead (such as Bernie Sanders).

In my opinion, the news companies focus too much on trying to grab your attention and not enough on actual news.

An example of a taxpayer funded news station is BBC.
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We have one. Its NPR and its far from being unbias. No thanks to state funded propaganda disguised as news.

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SouthernDemocrat said:
Do you honestly think that NPR or the BBC is anything at all like RT?
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NPR is a left wing liberally biased partisan hack. With Trump in office do you really want Fox News or Breitbart being funded by taxpayers? I'm slightly conservative, moderate right, and I don't.
 
Moderate Right said:
NPR is a left wing liberally biased partisan hack. With Trump in office do you really want Fox News or Breitbart being funded by taxpayers? I'm slightly conservative, moderate right, and I don't.
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Only a hack would think that NPR is a hack.
 
ocean515 said:
State run media is common in countries nobody in the United States should ever desire this country to be similar to.
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Does this mean you prefer corporate media such as NewsCorp which seems to be providing our present administration with exactly the propaganda Trump wants to see?


Reading the comments provides ever more evidence that a large segment of the American population sees any information which contradicts their True Beliefs as being biased - biased because it fails to conform to their tightly-held convictions on every subject from Russian hacking to Clinton criminality to racial prejudice to Christian persecution. One might begin to agree with the righties about the 'failed public education system' simply because so many Americans are so freakin' ignorant about the world - and absolutely certain that their views are the only ones with any validity.
 
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Somerville said:
Does this mean you prefer corporate media such as NewsCorp which seems to be providing our present administration with exactly the propaganda Trump wants to see?
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LOL

It means I don't want the government to decide what news is allowed to be printed or broadcast.

The fact that the bulk of corporate media is corrupt and ideologically impaired is a different subject.
 
Masterhawk said:
The problem with news corporations such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC is that they focus too much on little stories (yeah it's sad that a mom would let her daughter be raped and killed but let's be honest, it's an isolated incident). I personally don't mind little stories as long as they are part of a bigger issue. For example the 15 year old girl in Ohio who's in police custody for killing her abusive father. She could be in jail and not be released until she is 21. It is part of a bigger issue that juveniles from abusive families harsh penalties. Profit news stations also focus almost solely on the mainstream party and almost never the third parties or even candidates who aren't in the lead (such as Bernie Sanders).

In my opinion, the news companies focus too much on trying to grab your attention and not enough on actual news.

An example of a taxpayer funded news station is BBC.
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Old media is being squeezed by new media, independent internet Journos, etc.
So much so that CNN bought in one of the crappy pop YouTube celebs.

It would be them throwing money down a hole and for little reason.
 
Nothing large scale. But I think there might be some utility in having a simple government funded news outlet that just reports on government news stories. No commentary. No 24 hr news cycle. No commercials. No profit motive.
 
ocean515 said:
LOL

It means I don't want the government to decide what news is allowed to be printed or broadcast.

The fact that the bulk of corporate media is corrupt and ideologically impaired is a different subject.
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Governments of all shades left and right have complained over the years about the perceived lack of undying support from the BBC for their policies.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
Do you honestly think that NPR or the BBC is anything at all like RT?
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nope. if these broadcasting entities were nothing more than propaganda for whichever side is in power, then this thread would feature a bunch of left wingers complaining instead of the other way around. be that as it may, i support spending tax dollars to support public broadcasting and the arts.
 
Moderate Right said:
There is absolutely no doubt that NPR leans to the left. Heck, even Juan Williams was too far right for them.
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No, Juan Williams was fired from NPR because NPR is ridiculously PC. Conservatives are on NPR all the time.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
No, Juan Williams was fired from NPR because NPR is ridiculously PC. Conservatives are on NPR all the time.
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Do you even listen to yourself? Ridiculously PC means they are liberal. It is liberals who are ridiculously PC, not conservatives. By the way, FOX News has Democrats and liberals on all the time and even pays millions of dollars to employ Democratic and liberal contributors, such as Juan Williams, just to name one of many. Does this mean that FOX News is unbiased? It doesn't mean that NPR is unbiased either.
 
I am usually for the small government...but not on this.

There should be one - and only one - federally government funded, national news service. It would be just on the internet (tv is dying and too expensive anyway). It would be run by the private sector - but funded strictly by the government.

It would have zero commercials and accept zero private funding (so no PBS-style network) and it would be VERY cheap to operate, relatively speaking - $5 million tops.

And don't worry about reporters/journalists. Don't sent out news crews to cover events - totally unnecessary. Just review all the dozens and dozens and dozens of different news sources from all over the nation/world (tv, newspaper, internet) and base the reporting on those.
Have a summary of the news every 10-15 minutes. No interview shows or news 'shows'...just read the damn news. And only include major sports/entertainment/weather stories. There are a billion sources for those things now.

And the reporting should be STRICTLY FACTS...no guesstimates or opinions or assumptions.

And forget getting the public's reaction to things. The public are idiotic for the most part - they know squat. Ask 10 'men/women on the street' about something and you will get 8-10 different answers.

Just report the verified facts as they come in.
 
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