All of the fuss yesterday over the boy in the balloon merely reinforced my belief that the “free market” cannot do television news unless they remove the profit motive and stop competing for audiences. It’s a race to get the dumbest asses among us to watch their channels.
At least newspapers have the advantage of screening out all those who cannot read.
What’s the alternative? In Britain, news is subsidized by government.
That doesn’t work either.
I was just reading again this AM about that remarkable feat of Daniel Ellsberg wherein he overcame government power and released the Pentagon Papers to the public (with the assistance of powerful private corporations acting out the First Amendment). Question: Could that happen today?
Somehow, delivery of news has to be insulated from power, public and private.
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