Which type of media ownership is better, private or government?
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Private so that it's independent of government propaganda.
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None of the above.  I prefer a government run by true people who believe in their country and do it for all the right reason, instead of money and power.\n\nCommunism was the illusion of Utopia that failed because humans were running it.\n\nConservative wants to cut all aid to the poor, privatize social security AFTER they have completely pilfered the fund, and wage war on anyone that argues with them.\n\nLiberals are in it for the bleeding heart, but still want to raise their earnings and screw the private sector.\n\nNationalists are bigots, dictators, and culture purifiers that base their philosophies on conservative "values" and Ku Klux Klan "ideals".\n\nKill all politicians I say...
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I think it bites if the government can take your privately owned property so that some privately owned commercial business can have it.  If it's for roads etc., it might be necessary.
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Everyone wants service (health care, dentists, roads, schools, garbage collection), but no one wants to pay for it.\n\nThe media is owned by businesses and they rile the people against taxes. The moment government doesn't have money and doesnt provide the service private companies move in and charge for it (and more because unlike governments they need to make money and profit too)
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The general media has to play by the rules of reporting and the governments make those laws. If you want to see real free news then have a look at this site of Reporters without Borders for a clear non controlled view of the issues in the world today. http://www.rsf.org/
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MEDIA\nThe main newspaper, La Nation, is owned by the government, as is Radiodiffusion-Télévision de Djibouti (RTD), which operates the national radio and TV. There are no private broadcasters. All electronic media is closely controlled by the government. Private newspapers and other publications are generally allowed to circulate freely, but journalists exercise self-censorship. The official media does not criticize the government. US-sponsored Arabic-language Radio Sawa broadcasts programs to East Africa and Arabia from a transmitter in Djibouti. \nPress: Djibouti has no daily papers. A weekly newspaper, La Nation, is government-owned and published in French. There is at least one Arabic newspaper. Other weekly newspapers published in French include Le Renouveau, La République (both owned by the opposition party), Le Progrès, and Le Temps. \nTV: Djibouti Télévision is Government-owned. \nRadio: Radio Djibouti is Government-owned and broadcast in Afar, Arabic and Somali.
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Since the Thachter Government of 1979 onwwards most things are privatised. The only remaining State owned companies are: \n\nBritish Nuclear Fuel \nThe Post Office\nThe Police \nThe Prision service (although a number of the prisions are privately owned) \nThe BBC \nThe Schools, Colleges and Universties \nThe Health service \n\nChannel 4 and associted chanels (but ran independently)\n\n\nEven with these a number of services like cleaning, catering, repair and mainteance is carried out by private contractors\n \nEverything you list in your question is privately owned.
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public and business is the difference
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Public Sector is government things eg...health, councils, education etc.\nPrivate sector is private businesses.
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The basic notion of a free press is to allow and even ensure public criticism of government acts and policies so that the voters may debate the issues.  Robust debate is great for the country.
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Media was state controlled under communism, with TASS being the government news agency. It still exists, but there are a few, budding news organizations now. Izvetia is a popular newspaper. TV news continues to be heavily controlled by the government, and Russia has a terrible record of oppressing journalists, jailing media executives, etc.
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Short Answer:  Rights of Free Speech and Free Press
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I don't believe any industries should be regulated by the government.\n\nThe reason is that by regulating anything, certain inequities are created by the government.  That flies in the face of its founding principles.\n\nBeyond that, it's very ineffective.\n\nTake TV for instance.  Television is regulated by the FCC.\n\nTo start your own station, you need to obtain a license from the FCC.\n\nAnd the fee for that license is huge.  Only a few can afford this license.\n\nWhat you get is a situation like network TV.\n\nThe airwaves are public property but only a few get to use them.\n\nLack of variety means the same boring old programs.\n\nFewer sources of information means that viewers only get a narrow point of views.\n\nWould more regulation fix that?  Let's compare it to a similar industry:\n\nA similar yet largely unregulated industry is the Internet.\n\nEveryone can use it and more importantly, everyone can create on it.\n\nLook how fast it has developed.\n\nThere are literally billions of sites there worldwide.  One can communicate globally instantly.\n\nThe cost is low because ISPs don't need to pay an insane amount of fees, so just about everyone can afford it not only as a tool to receive information, but to transmit and create information.\n\nI believe that not only is more regulation bad, but we need to start deregulating a lot more industries.\n\n\n*I know someone might mention identity theft, but theft is theft.  On the Internet or in the real world.  That doesn't call for new laws but correct application of existing ones.
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There is some of it in government, just as there is some of it in the private sector. remember, it's not always bad...
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No. That's called a conflict of interests. If the\ngovernment invested into the private sector then they\nwould pass laws that would favor some companies over\nothers. That would stifle free enterprise.
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Both are good in different circumstances.. It should be decided by the standard they provide.. Private schools aim at Money, and may provide good standards.. public school aims at education but wont be having good standards..
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If what you say is fact (which I will research after I answer this) Then I say I have a serious problem with a single ownership of media.  Just as I've always have had with the monopolies of the telephone companies.  We have only made the great strides and advancements we have in telecommunications because they broke up the monopolies.  Thanks for the heads up!