Quote Originally Posted by spaldy View Post
NPR became indistinguishable from CGTV, Korea Central TV and Iran International.

PBS's old stuff was journalism and investigative with a human interest angle. The last couple of decades it was nothing but propaganda. There is an inherent conflict of interest in goverment handing out tax dollars to broadcast "news". PBS confirmed that theorem every day they broadcast.

In the era of Internet access throughout the US the concept of a government media empire is outdated. Use the billions of dollars they recieve to upgrade the internet for everyone.... including the rural areas that still lack access to high speed internet.
The internet, whether it's high quality infrastructure or not, is most definitely NOT the equivalent of what you probably think of as the "traditional" broadcasters, simply because the internet is a mechanism, it produces nothing but "routes" that the content producers use to distribute their content. There is very limited governance there, little or no verification of ANY of the accuracy of content and most certainly no ability to challenge the veracity of what a content provider uploads.

As a stateside dweller, you might welcome the wild west environment, but the usual winners in conflicts at the time of the historical wild west were those with the biggest guns, not necessarily those who had truth and honesty on their side. Same now.