MSNBC - ya wanna know why your ratings suck?

[Cleita]

86. In a news channel or news radio supported with public funding,

the producers and editors would decide. We the people, who would be funding this with our tax dollars, only need to require true journalistic standards be applied. No elected member of any branch of government would be allowed to kill or distort a story. No political party would be allowed to kill or distort a story. No corporation would be allowed to kill or distort a story. Producers and editors would have bona fide journalism credentials and would be held to the highest standards. That is true First Amendment rights.

Today it is the corporate interests behind the news outlets that decide and the journalists do not have First Amendment rights but you seem to think they do.

I grew up in the forties and fifties, when we were all supposed to hate communists aka the Soviet Union. We made fun of Pravda the propaganda outlet of the Soviet Union. We HATED propaganda or so we were taught in school because it was soooo communist. Yes, I know Pravda was state funded, but it was a propaganda outlet for the Communist Party. Today we have our own corporate funded Pravda known as Fox News which is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party.