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Originally posted by RACooper
I don't know... the "government" system in the case of the ABC (Australian Broadcst Corporation), CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation), and BBC (British Broadcast Corporation) all seem to do well when it comes to investigative reporting and objective journalism....
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Fine institutions all, but even BBC, while admired around the world, has had problems as Rudey correctly points out above. There was a huge reorganization at the top at BBC due to that. I certainly used to enjoy watching The National when I lived in Detroit and could watch CBC.
But those three are exceptions in that they aren't immediately under the control of whomever is in power. And, like the US, the administration(s) change with some amount of regularity through an orderly (?) process, so the government point of view changes. And they are democracies where freedom of the press is considered necessary (although sometimes a necessary evil by some).
What I had in mind was systems where the broadcasting/media are directly controlled and are little more than propaganda channels.
By the way, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought CBC (and maybe even BBC) are partially commercially supported due to cutbacks on government budgets. My memory could be wrong on that.
Kind of like PBS and NPR which now get little or no government funding and have to resort to commercial underwriting.