08-12-2017, 03:12 PM
(08-12-2017, 01:53 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: What's wrong with privately owned news companies? Wasn't that paramount in the 1st Amendment? The people have a voice, and I like the idea of privately owned news giving me more information than say a State owned outlet might be willing to provide. For example, many of the Nations that don't much care for Western Civilization all seem to have State controlled news outlets, in order to control the flow of information to their citizens.
I think (hope) he is referring to corporate run media which has profitzed news. He is wrong about it being Obama's fault, but it is one of the major issues with how we get information. This has been going on for longer than Obama has been in politics.
