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Volaris

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4. would I be remiss or out of place to ask a ?

Sat Apr 21, 2012, 08:03 PM

Apr 2012

How possible would it be to fund (at a National level) ONE reporter at every network or metropolitan newspaper whose job it is to JUST do investigative journalism on whatever story they think is important, and have them be immune from allegations of political bias, because their work is PUBLICLY funded with taxpayer dollars...(I know that's what PBS kinda sometimes gets to do with Frontline, but imagine a person (or a team like that) at every broadcast network, only they work for US, not the network, and the quality of what they do would be judged by the assessment of their peers, almost like Scientific research for Journalists...
The reason I think this is because like good Science, quality Journalism would be worth 10 times what we would end up paying for it...

Possible, or Pipe-dream?

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would I be remiss or out of place to ask a ? Volaris Apr 2012 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author Tyrs WolfDaemon Apr 2012 #5

K&R ... Bigtime! Bozita Apr 2012 #6

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Ha ha ha!!! I like it! Initech Apr 2012 #24

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some details are missing grasswire Apr 2012 #9

excellent summary from 2004 by David Niewert grasswire Apr 2012 #10

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Wow. Talk about a great metaphore. JFN1 Apr 2012 #12

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from the comments page at Texas Monthly grasswire Apr 2012 #23

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