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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
So, you all think that televisions stations have an obligation to air shows that they fear may damage their advertising relationships?
If it were public broadcasting, I'd be right there with you in terms of this amounting to meaningful censorship, but if you are a privately owned, for profit station shouldn't you have the right to choose what you air?
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I personally don't think it is a Fox thing at all. I think that the public has an expectation that journalists (TV, newspaper, and otherwise) and those people that employ journalists will report true and accurate stories that pique the public interest without regard to whether their advertisers will pull funding. It is what gives a newspaper or TV program credibility.
What is wrong is when journalists feed this expectation and pretend that this is how the business works because it misleads the public. I think if more people knew this was the norm, you'd see a lot more people personally lobbying their government officials to raise money for public broadcasting. Can you imagine having a
couple of stations instead of just a single PBS that is inadequately funded?