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Friday 14 August 2020

The role of the media is to facilitate consultation between the government and the governed

Let us suppose for a minute that the media is there to propagate state propaganda on the grounds that it is in the national interest to do so. Is the propaganda MSM pumps out in the national interest? Have you noticed that they won't even discuss what is in the national interest?

The only purpose of the media's existence is presumably because at some time it was felt to be in the national interest to keep the public informed either of the news or the government's orders, or the government's prompts disguised as news.

If nationalism is government in the national interest and nationalists are those who believe that their government should govern in the national interest, then whether allowing something to remain in existence would be a matter of national interest.

What national interest does the liberal media serve, if any? This is an increasingly urgent question now that liberal democracy is no longer producing good results has become general. Indeed, liberalism is no longer a coherent set of ideas or principles that even those claiming to be liberals can agree on. 

Will the media be facilitating a debate on this? If it refuses to do so, is it not in fact being subversive to the national interest by keeping the citizenry misinformed and preventing an exchange of ideas and views between the government and the governed.?

If this is the case, how can the BBC licence fee be justified? 

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