Am 15.01.2017 um 20:26 schrieb Patrick Elliott:

> What ever the press once aspired to, it has discovered, almost
> universally, across the board, that fiction pays more than telling the
> public they are actually wrong about what they believe. And.. when that
> happens... how do you salvage it?

In Germany, the solution is pretty simple: The commercial media are
complemented by a set of publicly financed radio and TV stations,
semi-controlled at the federal states level. We all pay most of their
budget through a kind of dedicated tax, and in turn they are obligated
to provide not only entertainment but also educational and informational
programs, and their shows include some dedicated to genuine
investigative journalism, produced by sub-stations attached to federal
states with different political "tint", which helps to keep the entire
blend reasonably neutral as a whole.

Of course in a country where capitalism is the state religion, and where
having any government-directed social traits in the society is perceived
as socialism, socialism is perceived as synonymous with communism, and
communism is perceived as identical with Stalinism, that concept
obviously won't fly.

In other words: Yes, you're screwed. I guess you've always been, ever
since the day you allowed religious fanatics to immigrate into your
country, whose agenda has always been to impose their religion as law
upon the whole continent.

I'm talking of course about the Puritans and similar riff-raff.

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