Daily Topics - Monday March 27th, 2017
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Coming up today on The Thom Hartmann Program - Your Home for the Resistance:
- This Is A Big Friggin Deal! Congress Moves To Strike Internet Privacy Rules...
- Bernie Introduces Single Payer Bill...Is It Possible For Government To Be Efficient?
- Do The Billionaires Need A Middle Class & Are They Responsible For All Our Problems?
- Your Questions on Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid...Answered - Alex Lawson, Social Security Works
- Guess What!? America's Terrorists Are Mostly White...
…LIVE from Washington, DC starting at 12pm Eastern…
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Thom, finally was able to call in. Told the screener I wanted to expand on the subject you were currently discussing. He said 'thats not the topic we're covering today', then hung up.
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What to do about the "press", or news media in general? The corporate model is broken. Government based reporting would be self -serving. Private web-based sources are proliferating. In essence, a co-operative model may be the best choice.
News papers were originally supported by subscriptions and advertising. Advertising leads to compromises. A model in which the readers are also owners of the enterprise might assure reliable reporting. A suficient number of members is necessary to make the effort sustainable.
Local or regional areas may be the way to start.