Publicly funded media isn't so bad if it tries to be objective when it comes to politics. I used to love PBS. I still think they have some amazing shows like Nature, Nova or some of the Brit dramas (i don't watch them but they are good quality imo). I got exposed to The Mclaughlin group on PBS and that show used to be top notch.

Same with BBC, I think BBC is globally recognized simply because it brought us such great documentaries like Planet Earth, Cosmos, Life et cetera. These types of shows really impacted my life for the positive and I don't have a problem with some pennies a year from my pay going to something like that. It's a net positive for the whole of society.

But I don't think a single person would argue here that this "Dark Money" documentary isn't biased. I think a publicly funded channel or radio should never try to interfere in politics. Instead, they should have an objective take on whatever is happening in the world, and this documentary blatantly casts one political party in a negative light, meanwhile, not discussing the same shit that's happening on the left. Goom is right, I watched Brooks and Shields before and although they make decent points and don't seem as biased as trash-tier platforms like CNN, but they are still leftish. That shouldn't be the case.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Oct 17 2018 04:00pm

Well brooks and shields is particularly ridiculous since its between mark shields (neoliberal democrat) and david brooks (anti-trump neoconservative RINO)
even throughout the 2008-2016 span brooks was basically fellating Obama and then effectively endorsed Hillary.
He's a rather literal never-trumper, in that he actually wrote an op-ed entitled "No, Not Trump, Not Ever" https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/opinion/no-not-trump-not-ever.html
That's their "conservative" voice. They're a great example of the media's absurdly disproportionate ideological representation. That whole thing where 95% of 'republicans' in the media are anti-Trump, but 95% of republicans in the country are pro-Trump.

I mean, didn't he try to do something similar with the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity? Doxxing someone is quite different than states having to publish their voting rolls to the federal government, but in principle it still involved tax payer-funded collection of personal private information. It's not surprising the commission was derailed by lawsuits.



I also see the educational value in publicly funded media, but the catch is that it could always become too political. I think that's undoubtedly what we are observing happen with PBS over time, and I understand Conservatives' frustrations with it.

That's a stretch, considering voter registrations are actually public records, not private, and that information wasn't being publicized for doxxing anyone.
It came down to squabbling over the more detailed long forms with social security numbers that could actually be used to cross reference those databases with federal databases, and some silly scenarios where states were refusing to turn over to the federal government records that literally anyone could just apply to receive in their own capacity.

What is the neoliberal left? I see Trump supporters using that label all the time... and I don't know for sure what they mean by it.

Still better than CNN bringing on pro-Trump people who signed non-disparagement agreements. Lol.

neoliberalism, the third way democrats, the clintonistas, corporate democrats, etc. They are ideologically distinct from the progressive left;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way
all political definitions are nebulous by nature, but neoliberals are generally defined by a social authoritarian streak, globalism and free trade, aggressive economic interventions by QE, bailouts, etc to exclusively use the carrot rather than stick against big banks and wall street, political pragmatism and so on so forth. Everything hurled at Hillary Clinton in the past 3 years gives a pretty good idea of what neoliberals are.

I'll take the Bill Clinton third way over Trump and Pocahontas any day.

Neoliberalism is garbage ideology, the right wing party ruining my country are neo liberals.

Now your post ranking scale is phallic. You're too into those.