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Originally Posted by tankdriver
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This I disagree with. Americans (those free market/conservative types especially) have this mistaken belief in the power of the consumer. The consumer wields a portion of power, but hardly one that regularly changes markets. It's overly simplistic. I hear the same argument about gas prices. Some (most) markets are driven by the providers, not the consumers. A free market does not require a powerful consumer.
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The alternative is to have news come from something other than a free market. That means that the news would be beholding to something other than the market.
What entity would you suggest?
How would you determine whether the alternative to a free market source is manipulated or not without having competing media sources?
Let's say (just for fun), that the current administration started-up a media source dependent on government for it's creation and continuation. Would that source be biased or unbiased? How would you tell?
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