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How should news sites be funded?
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this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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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.
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.
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.
Yea, it should be a charter/constitution specified percentage of all government revenue. Then they can't fuck with it easily.
Would you invision that to be similar to something like PBS but fully funded from government sources?
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.