How simple would it be to end our media driven dementia using our democratically elected government?

Can you imagine a free press that's funded and not censored?-. With journalism in the public interest? Because we make that the law in America?
Are you sure you still never heard of that? -. That thing I just said? The free, public press? So democracy becomes more possible?

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ElwoodBlues · M

So who decides which "presses" get funded and which ones don't? Can I get paid fulltime to write all day about my dog and my garden? Would I be allowed to use my 'free press' to threaten people with bodily harm? To organize a prison break? There are probably a lot more questions like these, but they are a start.

I'll just leave you with this PSA

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

@ElwoodBlues I submit that you're nitpicking, and that you already know the answer.

Update: I have a love hate relationship with my speech recognition software.

Stopmakingsense · 61-69, F

@ElwoodBlues that's easier than you want it to be.

ElwoodBlues · M

@Stopmakingsense You mean I can get a full time salary writing about my dog and my garden?

Stopmakingsense · 61-69, F

@ElwoodBlues is that what you think journalism in the public interest is? Or do you always smart off when you're wrong?

ElwoodBlues · M

@Stopmakingsense I think "journalism in the public interest" is in the eye of the beholder and not amenable to a legal definition.

Stopmakingsense · 61-69, F

@ElwoodBlues we've done it it before.

ElwoodBlues · M

@Stopmakingsense We've decided which for-profit media companies deserve public money and which ones other for-profit media companies have to fend for themselves?