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Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser... by dillondoyle on Saturday October 09, 2021 @02:30PM (#28812074)
I wish PBS was better funded and supported, maybe look to BBC as an example to emulate. Though BBC also has non-new programming (drag race!).

The problem is trusting government. I don't trust either parties here so I would lean toward a for-profit system with heavier regulation.

It looks like the Fairness Doctrine is no more? Anyone have better knowledge here than I do who can give some background?

From what I kind of know it used to require broadcasters to dedicate programming to actual factual news in order to use govt spectrum. Also dictated journalism ethics like letting subjects comment.

Also seems like this deregulation was the impetus for (what i consider dangerous and harmful) alt reality 'news' like the murdoch empire and Alex Jones characters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/everyth...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47669.html

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Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser... by nradov on Saturday October 09, 2021 @03:25PM (#28812496)
The Fairness Doctrine only ever applied to broadcast TV and radio because spectrum was a limited resource. It never applied to cable, satellite, or online services. Those were never really deregulated because they were hardly regulated in the first place.
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Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser... by dillondoyle on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:40PM (#28813094)
Makes sense. Broadcast is a shell of what it was in viewership. Interestingly it seems Republicans might be the ones pushing government intervention on those new platforms (FB) since they feel censored.
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Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser... by asteroidbelt on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:45PM (#28813132)
BBC has shifted from being neutral in the recent years, and there are demands to stop public funding of BBC.

No, BBC today is a bad example. BBC 50 years ago, I don't know.

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Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser... by dillondoyle on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:40PM (#28815549)
Interesting I didn't know people wanted to defund BBC
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Re:China proposes prohibiting private investment in news ser... by asteroidbelt on Sunday October 10, 2021 @08:10AM (#28817782)
Some do https://www.defundbbc.uk/

I don’t pay for TV license (out of principles) and I’m annoyed I cannot legally watch SpaceX launches live on YouTube.

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