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by setting up Meta and Google as significant sources of income for legacy media, the government would be creating a dependence relationship that would entrench the big tech oligopoly. Not that Meta and Google love having to pay more money, but they do love regulations that act as barriers to entry for other firms and maintain them as necessary parts of the marketplace and body politic
✏️ The issue at hand in enforcing a tax to be paid by tech companies to media companies. You end up entrenching two sets of oligarchies, and the government enabling the movement of tax revenue from one set of billionaires to another. 🔗 View Highlight
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As journalism declines, it becomes harder to hold governments to account and inform population of their rights. Dodgy behavior by state and private actors thrives in the dark. Norms decline. However, a healthy journalism industry that serves the public good presupposes a media that is not bought and paid for by a corporate elite, driven by market imperatives of maximizing profit and underwriting liberal and market orthodoxy.
✏️ Here’s the thing. Private journalism feels inherently at odds because the driving factor is profit, not truth and accountability. How do you create a public journalism that’s free to pursue the truth, other than one that is collectively funded by the people? 🔗 View Highlight
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because it’s a critical public good for a democracy, the role of the state in supporting it through public means is central to preserving self-government
✏️ Assuming the government wants it to be a truly democratic endeavor 🔗 View Highlight
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strategic approach to a healthy public media comprising five elements, including noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly funded media; the dismantling of concentrated media outlets; establishing publish service obligations for publishers; building up media cooperatives and worker-control or owned enterprises; and establishing better and more diverse newsroom governance and oversight
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A diverse, pluralist, public-spirited media landscape encompassing a blend of public and cooperative or worker-owned outlets offers a transformative vision for journalism