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"A newspaper, if owned by an individual, expresses only the views of its owner. The assertion that it represents public opinion is untenable and has no basis, because in reality it expresses the views of an individual, and from the point of view of genuine democracy it is unacceptable that an individual should own the print media and other types of media that provide the public with information."
Thoughts?
Whether a newspaper is privately owned by an individual/corporation or is ran by the state, there is no such ting as a free media because the owner of the paper will always twist events or selectively report events so that it fits with their worldview. There's no such thing as a free press.
Surd, New vedan, and Arclandia
If a publication's contributors are the only ones who believe their own opinion, they won't have a subscriber base very long. Inasmuch as it would be absurd to assert that a medium directly speaks for or represents the opinion of an entire culture, we can certainly observe how much of a culture shares the ideas expressed by the numbers it generates. We will further agree that there's no such thing as a truly unbiased media, but we would assert that the ideas of a free press and an objective press have been conflated here.
Regardless of any media's accuracy, objectivity, or representative capacity, the most a government should do to regulate the free press, something that exists as an extension of both expressive rights and commercial rights, is to regulate itself right out of it. Of course, a government also retains the right to freedom of the press and may use that to generate its own propaganda machine or information resource at will, but that should not happen to the exclusion of the people's right to express their opinions publicly through published media.
Surd and Free market buisnesses
All media is biased, but that isn't immoral. The other options are communism or state controlled media, so we're stuck with what it is now. Besides, media will always be biased from the creators perspective regardless of who owns it, so this would render all media that's meant to inform immoral.
Free press is letting things be twisted.
Surd, Arclandia, and Viennaria
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Treadwellia, Free market buisnesses, and Viennaria
This region has been visited by the ever travelling travelers
*drops potato*
Treadwellia, New vedan, Free market buisnesses, Arclandia, and 2 othersSouthcarolina, and Viennaria
MMPH in the morning! MMPH in the evening! MMPHing all dayyyy!
From the latest smash hit on Treadwellian radio: "MMPH in the Morning."
Delta Vega IV, Calgasia, Free market buisnesses, and Viennaria
Who doesn't like some MMPH in the morning? *Blush*
Delta Vega IV and Free market buisnesses
Tubbius blushes! You misunderstood the MMPH in those song lines!
Delta Vega IV, Free market buisnesses, and Viennaria
Today's quote of the day:
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
—Sir Winston Churchill
Delta Vega IV, Treadwellia, Gaiaguay, and Free market buisnesses
I'll take the bait.
Even going to the heart of capitalism, the U.S., there was alternatives to the present day disaster. the enforcement of the FCC fairness doctrine it its time, the equal-time rule.
Or how they like to talk about "capitalism" and "competence", they could begin to break down the excessive media consolidated conglomerates, that from the political and economic manipulation to the polarization (good for the numbers!), to the generic blandness and low quality music has produced with the standardization of "tastes" across the board.
And of course there is alternatives beyond that. Quality public broadcasting services, community owned media and son on.
Regarding the recent WA vote, I have this to say
The death penalty is needed for all circumstances to deal with murderers, rapists, human traffickers, child molesters, and pedophiles
Hraban, Trontasky, Free market buisnesses, and Arclandia
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Hraban, Gaiaguay, Free market buisnesses, and Divine egypt
That is some real wisdom.
Delta Vega IV, Treadwellia, and Free market buisnesses
Good thing we don't have elder people over here. We don't even need to worry about that. :)
Delta Vega IV, Free market buisnesses, and Viennaria
Nine more days to two Tubby years!
Delta Vega IV, Free market buisnesses, and Viennaria
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