Kinda like how Reagan removed the fairness doctrine… Oh, sure, any ol’ President could have it restored… 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Obama, 2+ years of Biden… Hey, it’s only been since 1987… 36 years… I’m sure it will be back any day now…
My argument is that anything the government grants you can also be taken away… and if the counter is “But it can be restored too…”
it’s easy to win your own arguments when you put words in my mouth. why even bother pretending to have a debate when all you want is to put on a performance?
you can wallow in defeatist nihilism. I have better things to do.
It depends entirely on how the funding arrangement is enshrined. Some mechanisms are easier to undo and some are practically impossible to undo.
So while you could say that nothing in our world is guaranteed, it’s going too far to say we shouldn’t have publicly funded media because any old president can just snap his fingers and make it all go away. That’s not the case.
And even if funding were easy to pull, that would mean no public media until someone else snaps their fingers and restores it.
Kinda like how Reagan removed the fairness doctrine… Oh, sure, any ol’ President could have it restored… 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Obama, 2+ years of Biden… Hey, it’s only been since 1987… 36 years… I’m sure it will be back any day now…
That’s the problem, when it comes to government funding, nothing is guaranteed. :)
Witness:
https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA
That’s why I suggested multiple levels of oversight. Also, they kept their funding.
They did, because Mr. Rogers defended it. If he hadn’t been there to step up it likely would have been cut.
That’s the problem. You get one party in power who doesn’t like it for some reason, it’s gone.
What you’ve shown is the system -democracy - working as intended. I’m not sure how that’s a criticism.
except your “evidence” proves the exact opposite.
Kinda like how Reagan removed the fairness doctrine… Oh, sure, any ol’ President could have it restored… 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Obama, 2+ years of Biden… Hey, it’s only been since 1987… 36 years… I’m sure it will be back any day now…
what does that have to do with government funding of journalism?
My argument is that anything the government grants you can also be taken away… and if the counter is “But it can be restored too…”
Yeah, still waiting on the Fairness Doctrine, which, yeah, also has a direct impact on journalism.
it’s easy to win your own arguments when you put words in my mouth. why even bother pretending to have a debate when all you want is to put on a performance?
you can wallow in defeatist nihilism. I have better things to do.
this is why we protect the speech and the journalism… it’s like the whole vaccine argument all over again…
It depends entirely on how the funding arrangement is enshrined. Some mechanisms are easier to undo and some are practically impossible to undo.
So while you could say that nothing in our world is guaranteed, it’s going too far to say we shouldn’t have publicly funded media because any old president can just snap his fingers and make it all go away. That’s not the case.
And even if funding were easy to pull, that would mean no public media until someone else snaps their fingers and restores it.
Kinda like how Reagan removed the fairness doctrine… Oh, sure, any ol’ President could have it restored… 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Obama, 2+ years of Biden… Hey, it’s only been since 1987… 36 years… I’m sure it will be back any day now…
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