Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: government media is bad foryou

[Brad DeLong]

>Yeah, but it does get frustrating when you write odes to diversity, putting
>'voice' at the very centre of the role of media, cite sources, critique
>methodology, empirically refute the 'results', suggest alternative approaches
>to the issue etc - and your interlocutor ignores it all and then tells the
>world you're siding with  the very embodiment of 19th century repression and
>autocracy!...

Touche...

But maintaining independence of thought and critique is really hard 
when you are paid out of a government budget. And the institutional 
frameworks that preserve the relative independence of state-owned 
media in some of the industrial democracies may not be as strong as 
we would hope when the stakes get high, and are hard to transplant. 
President Niyazov of Turkmenistan is no more interested in 
"diversity" and "voice" than was Vladimir Lenin, or Royal Police 
Director Geiger of Koeln...

Brad DeLong