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Should government fund the local media?
BillieTheBot
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Pollyanna Toynbee of Teh Grauniad - the experts when it comes to tax avoidance - seems to think so. Read her piece, and feel free to look at the comments. As ever, almost everyone thinks she's completely off her rocker.
I always feel automatically inclined to take the other side when Polly states an opinion on anything. She's that sort of person, it seems. Today is no exception. I can't see a single reason in her piece that would convince me that Zanu Labour should start shovelling money into local news providers. Isn't there a danger, for starters, that government-funded news might possibly be distinctly biased? We already have one service that churns out government propaganda on our television screens - it's called the BBC. Why exactly do we need another one?
Methinks that Teh Grauniad - a failing, loss-making newspaper - would be quite interested in receiving government subsidies. I wonder why Polly didn't point that out in her article?
Over to you...
I always feel automatically inclined to take the other side when Polly states an opinion on anything. She's that sort of person, it seems. Today is no exception. I can't see a single reason in her piece that would convince me that Zanu Labour should start shovelling money into local news providers. Isn't there a danger, for starters, that government-funded news might possibly be distinctly biased? We already have one service that churns out government propaganda on our television screens - it's called the BBC. Why exactly do we need another one?
Methinks that Teh Grauniad - a failing, loss-making newspaper - would be quite interested in receiving government subsidies. I wonder why Polly didn't point that out in her article?
Over to you...
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I stopped reading there.
Bloody hell - at least the banks and car companies weren't as blatant about ripping of taxpayers...