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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Everytime public radio or PBS starts in with heavy hard hitting shit about how fucked up our government is the same government decides to cut their funding. fun huh? and not only that but it makes PBS and the corporation for public broadcasting depend on donations and funding from giant industrial complex assholes like ADM and MOnsanto

yes. i think this can be reversed however. with the right congress and the right legislation you could make all news media independently owned. sure they'd have to respond to their stockholders, but they would not be under direct control of any other company. then again, in the 18th and 19th centuries newspapers used to be ran by political parties which unabashedly presented their points of view. "Objectivity in news" is a XX century development (unfortunately short-lived).

The alternative, which is *gulp* nationalization, is wrong and wrong and wrong-- governments are even worse than big business at spewing propaganda & general balls. would you watch 5-hour speeches by dubya every sunday on all available channels? the horror...