China controls their state media, NPR/BBC etc. have state funding but remain edi...

anonymouskimmer · on April 12, 2023

Yes, I know. Just pointing out that media isn't the only industry that's state funded to the person who's comment was just "media".

klooney · on April 12, 2023

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anonymouskimmer · on April 12, 2023

I know China requires Communist party committees within most large businesses. It would surprise me if this is not also the case for their news media. Note that these aren't affiliations, but actual political organizations within the businesses.

The Republicans control the house. The US is not a land of political "rulers", at least not at the moment (arguments can be made for FDR's presidency).

chapium · on April 12, 2023

That seems like a contradiction.

anonymouskimmer · on April 12, 2023

This is why you can't stop at "who funded it" as an indicator of bias and editorial control, but have to look at what is actually produced as well.

Clair Cameron Patterson famously took money from the leaded gasoline industry to help fund his research demonstrating the harms of leaded gasoline.

fortuna86 · on April 12, 2023

If you build editorial independent into a legal charter, and have a government that isn't authoritarian and protects the rule of law, why is it a contradiction?