alt Hacker NewsBut a state financed news outlet is no better, because it invariably ends up being government propaganda, since that's the hand that feeds it.
But a state financed news outlet is no better, because it invariably ends up being government propaganda, since that's the hand that feeds it.
There is no perfect world, and so it isn't perfect, but the separation between financing and content selection is there.
IMO it doesn't need to be perfectly neutral and independent to be valuable for the population and the democracy. I'd love for it to be without the flaws the system has, I just think it is hard to install the perfect system, given the incentives of the involved decision-makers.