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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

Dems need to fund real journalism, embrace antitrust, restore media consolidation limits, create new media ownership diversity requirements, and completely reshape our media literacy standards taking a page from Finland, which starts teaching kids to recognize propaganda starting at THREE YEARS OLD

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

Except that seems to give the BBC as a positive example, which is at odds with how much it pushes the bigotry of the government of the day. Sure, it won't push ivermectin unless the latest PM is RFK Jr, but it is happy to push transphobia regardless of the effect it has on society.