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dx1@lemmy.world 1 year agoAll journalism becomes volunteer work, running off of optional donations, which seems unlikely :D
It’s not quite that simple with PBS or NPR, but that’s the basic idea. Open public funding with no political or corporate control sounds like the safest bet. It’s as viable as people deciding to support it.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In Germany, the independence of publicly funded media is guaranteed by the payment of a special fee that is collected independently of the normal taxes, and is distributed directly among the public media institutions. No parliament has to approve any funding, the only attack vector would be to change the legislation behind this financing but that would require a parliamentary majority and would therefore have to be the will of the people.
dx1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s better than “all media is run by the Fuhrer” I suppose, but probably still preferable for people to have the choice of which to support.