The same thing is pretty much happening here with Finkelstein. Thanks to articles like this, the hysterical reaction pretty much ensures that any government that wants to enforce standards on the news media will be considered to be recklessly trampling free speech beneath satanic jackboots in an Orwellian orgy of dictatorial facsism by the time that media is finished with them.
I don't support this at all. Leaving aside regulation for a moment, no one seems to have twigged that the problem is with news itself. In short, we don't really get it any more. We get something that looks like news, but is quite slanted and biased and, as I alluded to in my previous posts, we now are getting some pretty second-rate product that we, as consumers, don't really deserve.
In other words, the market is not providing and therefore, there is market failure. Which, in other industries, means that it's time to regulate.
So, I thought I'd have a good think about this. What is is that we would like a news service to provide us with? What is it that we, as consumers, think of when we think of news?
