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Insane Policy Ideas - An end to advertising | 40 comments (40 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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How do you handle the problem of having governmental control of the media? The BBC and NPR are bad enough already...

by asdf on Wed Jan 30th, 2008 at 08:47:52 AM EST

Re: Insane Policy Ideas - An end to advertising (4.00 / 3)

Are they any worse than the non-government controlled bits?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Jan 30th, 2008 at 09:07:13 AM EST
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Re: Insane Policy Ideas - An end to advertising (none / 0)

Not by a long shot. Oh, wait, that was a rhetorical question, wasn't it?

- Jake

Ceterum censeo Chicago esse delendam

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri Feb 1st, 2008 at 12:34:56 PM EST
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Re: Insane Policy Ideas - An end to advertising (none / 1)

The control and funding of state-sponsored media are different a different issue, I think. I'm not advocating that all media be bought and operated by the government - I'm just advocating that its funding come from the government, in a completely different form than it is now. NPR, for example, is not given government funding according to its listener base.

I don't have time now, but I'll try and flesh this out in more detail later.

by Zwackus on Wed Jan 30th, 2008 at 05:38:07 PM EST
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