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Gerald Pelchat's avatar

You had me until "a new national model ----- should be developed by the Fed Gov." Have we learned nothing? The Real Story, The Line , Inkless PW, etc is the promise of the future. The Feds can use the tax system to a greater degree to keep us proles involved.

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Robert Irwin's avatar

I do not find Marc Edge's solutions useful. Like many, he blames the problems on profit-making. But his campaign to transform the media into a public utility is unsatisfactory. As a libertarian oriented person, I distrust concentrations of power. I prefer crowd funding over government funding; crowd funding certainly has the merit of breaking down such structures, but it does not resolve the problem of echo chambers. I think Terry's concern about the epistemological crisis is more important. When truth and facts have no value, no model resolves the media crisis. I do not think the crisis is caused by profiteering; nor do I think it is caused by technology, targeted ads, and the end of the monopoly on advertising. I think it is a side-effect of the notion of "their truth" and "alternative facts" (phrases that are synonymous). Until we agree that there are facts and truths, I fear no action resolves the crisis of journalism, or history, or science ....

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