Huh?
Facts pless
My country has a state broadcaster that riddles the government E V E R Y B L O O D Y M I N U T E
UK is the same
Private media is probably more dangerous in developed countries as anyone can buy a few hundred thousand shares and have influence
Look at Italy!
Maybe Murdoch plans to do the same...
From what I have read in your posts, you believe that government should have a big role in just about every aspect of our lives. We want to be left alone. We want the government bound and restricted to only what is in our Constitution. Anything beyond that is an assault on our freedoms and liberties.
You also mistakenly assume that because we have many sources of news and opinions, that we somehow need a state run media outlet to set us all straight. BTW, he have a form of state run media, it's called NPR and it leans quite a bit to the left.
You think that more voices, opinions, debate is somehow dangerous instead of something that should be encouraged. That is what I mean about despising freedom and liberty. Being free has consequences. We all have to be responsible for our actions and there are no guarantees other than what it says in the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Nothing in there about guaranteeing happiness. That is what is meant by being free. Maybe I should not have made the statement I did regarding your interpretation of freedom and liberty, and I apologize for it. But an Irishman's interpretation of it and an American's are obviously very different.
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