Interesting how people like it use sympathetic terms (“public media”) while those who don’t use pejorative terms (“state-owned”, “government-run”).

I’m not saying it’s good or bad, just observing the language.

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inigyou 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The former is euphemistic. The latter two are objective.

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entrope 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not in every case. I would call (in the US) National Public Radio "public media", but Voice of America "government-run".

I personally don't know enough about BBC or France 24 to go beyond "government-funded", so I would want more details about their governance before using the terms mentioned before to describe them.

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yls 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sarcasm?

In a democracy, how would state owned be different from public?

Do you also call libraries state-run?

IMHO both terms are heavy with bias depending on context.

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Public means accessible to everyone. State-owned means owned by the state. These are orthogonal axes. X is a public square that is not owned by the state. The CIA situation room is owned by the state but is not public.

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eth0up 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think if certain books happened to not appear in that library, it being state-run might be something to consider.

What ever it truly is, America is called a 'democracy', and it had Project Mockingbird, which some, myself included, say never ended. And even being maximally fair, I must question whether democracy has any meaning in the context of media after Ellison buys half of it. Does he not own CNN? No point in mentioning who, or what owns Fox. And Bezos?

I know it comes off offensive, despite being unintended, but 'democracy' means nothing to me. We have some useful principles of it, which I value, but as a thing, I don't see it.

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Alternative conclusion: democracy means something, but America doesn't have it

	▲	eth0up an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. And we seem to be missing a Republic too. Thank G0d for Chinese LLMs.