[boxlunch]

I agree with this article, that w

e need balanced and fair reporting, but how is that done? Other than by a conservative billionaire buying a couple of competing outlets? The bias at the big 5 media obviously is approved by their ownership, so “pressuring them” to be more balanced is going to be a completely wasted effort.

We are going to lose our republic if we don’t figure out a way to correct this though. The big 5 have WAY too much unelected power in this country, they are kingmakers, and to presume that especially the people who aren’t naturally very informed anyway and dont care much about politics are going to search things out on the internet and “find out the truth” for themselves, is naive.

[TheNext]

Simply give their channel frequency to the tea party and let big media compete like others.

It is that simple folks. Do not over analyze.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I agree with this article, that w e need balanced and fair reporting, but how is that done? Other than by a conservative billionaire buying a couple of competing outlets? The bias at the big 5 media obviously is approved by their ownership, so “pressuring them” to be more balanced is going to be a completely wasted effort.

Absolutely. Adam Smith predicted the case with journalists exactly when he wrote that

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations 1776

People just have to learn that anyone who claims to be objective is selling something. Emphatically including NPR and PBS.