Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "The Battle Against a Free Press Continues" video.

  1. Would it be the worst idea to have a body (obviously not government controlled) that oversees journalism to prevent misrepresentations of the fact, withholding of information to promote narrative, or outright falsehoods being presented as fact? Obviously, such a body would be ripe for abuse, like any regulatory institution. The reason people don't trust the media isn't ONLY because Republicans are screeching "fake news!" at the top of their lungs. It's because they constantly and consistently get caught pulling some shady shit. Too much opinion pushing and sensationalism have crept in, not to mention ideology and profit motives. We NEED a free press, not beholden to anything except the absolute facts, and we don't have that now. The left thinks of the Free Press the way Republicans think of the Free Market, something that should be allowed to function without oversight or regulation, lest we fall into tyranny, but a corrupt press beholden to ideology or profiteering corporations can be just as dangerous as a business looking only at its bottom line, willing to do anything for a profit, even if it means destroying the environment. Maybe it's an overcorrection to propose some sort of regulatory body. At the very least, it should be a hard slap in the face of journalists to wake up and start acting the way they're supposed to.
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