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

@SomeMichGuy That's funny. Trump appears to be under the impression that a free press is his enemy.

@SomeMichGuy corporate, not free. You lack journalism in the public interest and you don't fund independent artists.

@Stopmakingsense Bullshit.

Your Commie overlords made sure to avoid telling you about a long tradition of investigative journalism in the public interest--the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate investigations, even one of the Watergate journalists talking to Trump and him admitting his lies about the pandemic.

Local journalists break stories about con artists, bad businesses, crooked politicians, unfairness, poor schools, environmental problems.

Making money by HONEST reporting is possible. The [i]New York Times,[/i] [i]Washington Post,[/i] and other newspapers have done it; [i]The New Yorker[/i] and other magazines have done it; network television (CBS, NBC, ABC) have done it. And PBS on the TV side and NPR on the radio side are Federal examples of journalism in the public interest which is usually replicated at the state level.

Does China report on how it steals intellectual property? Does it report on the artificial islands it has made? Does it report on how it simply fails to control its North Korean little brother, a countrt which starves its people and is run by an idiot madman? Does it report accurately on Tianamen Square? Or how it is violating its promises regarding Hong Kong? Or how it treats Tibet? How it grabbed and probably killed an important Lama in Buddism? How about how it is destroying other ethnic minorities? Does it tell how it tries to control what its people can even access on the internet?

Does it report how Chinese peasants traded an Emperor for a vindictive oligarchy?

Does it explain how billionaires are harmonious with Communist philosophy? What does Mao's [i]Little Red Book[/i] say about that?

And yes, independent artists are still funded through patrons, through commissions of works, through requests for proposals, through grants & other funding from organizations/non-profits, through competitions & exhibitions, and through the National Endowment for the Arts.

Guess you should actually do some of your own investigative journalism before quoting the Party line, Comrade.

@SomeMichGuy you're already at war against China. You seem to think I'm an enemy, too.

@Stopmakingsense China is seeking confrontation.

You are an agent of China, or s brainwashed Sinophile.