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Maybe I haven't read enough about AES states, but I'm quite curious what people here think is a good model for a free press. While I once thought that maybe you could allow people and/or businesses to still get paid by "customers" for providing press yikes-1yikes-2yikes-3 , I've realized that that doesn't really make any sense at all. Profit motive and good press will always be at odds, whether through over-sensationalizing or just by reporting what's in the interest of the owners. porky-happy

So, I think not allowing the press to be a profiting entity of any kind, nor one that ever runs ads for any reason (of course these go hand in hand) is a no brainer centrist . And so money to fund the organizations must come from some taxes (I'm thinking of a DoP stage of development porky-scared ).

But then what should the press organizational structure actually be? What best way could you separate it from both the state and I suppose the party mao-wave itself . Should there be press orgs at every municipal level, up through counties and states/national governments? Councils of citizens not-a-journalist which are involved to have some say over organizational policy and journalistic standards (including the journalists in said councils of course).

I'm open to all sorts of ideas, just would like to hear people's takes because every day we see more and more just how truly broken our laughable western "press" really is.dumpster-fire

Plus anyone who has cool ideas about how socialist school/health systems should work I also love hearing those! stalin-feels-good

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[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

nor one that ever runs ads for any reason

it should run obviously fake ads as a honeypot and people that fall for them get supplementary media literacy education.

i don't think you can have a true version of the lie we're sold about free press when capitalist states exist

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