should government backed radio and television networks promote one-sided, politics?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
I guess the answer to that is sure, just look at the BBC.
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should government backed radio and television networks promote one-sided, politics?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
I guess the answer to that is sure, just look at the BBC.
Opinion or fact? What side does commercially sponsored TV back?Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
"Media bias rating agency Ad Fontes Media has placed the PBS NewsHour within 10 points of the ideological center, labeling it "reliable" and based in "analysis/fact".
Is big bird a woke conspiracy theorist diverting children's minds from the truth of social media sites?
Basically, Trump just doesn't like PBS, which was funded by Congress, and waved his kingly staff to defund.
Our new friends here are both the committeeman and committee woman for the Democratic party precinct, maybe the entire county says DH.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
I wonder if frugal-one could be friends with local leaders in her area of the Republican party.
We are used to having a lot of friends who are not politically aligned living as we did in the inner blue city. Actually, here, we see more people we know at the Republican gathering than we ever did in the city. Our
committeeman friends may be in the minority party here.
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Originally Posted by Rogar
I don’t think of PBS as producing much politically charged programming, unlike NPR. I know of what I speak because I listened to NPR for decades.
While working for Wikipedia, the current NPR CEO's TED Talk informed us that "truth is a distraction" and stressed the concept of "minimal viable truth" being "more useful for action". I don't think she told us what type of action she promoted but whatever it was, it seems intentionally untrustworthy.
The "action" she refers to is the ability to move forward with collective decisions and build trust-based collaboration, even when people hold differing underlying beliefs
I have to assume that decades of listening to NPR is evidence of value added.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Oh, I can see where truth might indeed be a distraction when directing people to a favored trust based collaboration.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
I'd probably have to listen to the whole Ted talk for my unbiased version of what she is getting at. I take it that she is saying the a news source doesn't have to always have the absolute truth, but it has to be good enough for enough of the people to offer some degree of trustworthiness and reliability. And among that degree there should be some common grounds for progress, even with some disagreements. Like we've talked about here before, there is no one particular news offering that is absolutely perfect and all of them have their influencing benefactors among those holding the cards of money and power. Some just have better influences than others. I know I have to get my news from more than one place to come to my conclusions.
I'm not too sure what that has to do with the funding of public radio or TV? One other reason I like it is that I don't get the ads for O-O-O-Ozempic and Burt Law (we don't get paid until you do).
Very little now that taxpayers aren't paying for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar