On 22 June 2012 22:09, <lev@levlafayette.com> wrote:
Hope this helps,
Lev
Hi, Some interesting stuff. I will make a note of what you said and read about it later. Getting back to my original point. I really don't see what can be done about people buying up newspapers. Any intervention is going to cause more problems than it would solve. Having a government department decide what can and can't be published or arbitrating on what they decide to be 'unbiased' can hardly be better than simply allowing people to buy and read the newspapers that they like. If a newspaper becomes biased and self-serving, then people are free to read something else. Another point, in relation to investigative journalism and the cost of it, in the case of commercial investigation, market reports, technical news and that sort of thing, there tends to be a high level of availability of that sort of stuff because there is real value in it. In the case of investigating into issues that governments actively try to obfuscate... it can mean a great deal of work for a journalist to try and get through all the chicanery and bureaucracy. But having a publicly funded / determined unit of investigative journalists for the sake of investigating into government activity and 'making democracy work'... it seems like trying to make two wrongs to make a right. Instead why not just remove as much function of government as possible and allow free enterprise to take over? Cheers, Alex