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I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms

smart policy icons like @victorpickard.bsky.social and @gbsohn.bsky.social have spent decades outlining exactly what needs to happen, but the general dem approach to media reform has been the policy equivalent of a wet farting sound for the last quarter century

oh, and adequately fund publicly-owned media, which is a firewall against authoritarianism in every country where funding and support is healthy

How do you prevent government-funded media from being a mouthpiece for authoritarianism, like how the BBC supports the transphobia of British governments?

there's a long list of European countries that have managed to erect functional firewalls between public media editorial and governance