There is an obvious difference between the military and the media. The basic tenet of a democracy is that media is objective, and that the government is viewpoint neutral, without favor to any given ideology. When you openly court an obvious ideological extremist to run a public news source, you are venturing into anti-democratic waters,…
There is an obvious difference between the military and the media. The basic tenet of a democracy is that media is objective, and that the government is viewpoint neutral, without favor to any given ideology. When you openly court an obvious ideological extremist to run a public news source, you are venturing into anti-democratic waters, wherein the government funds a preferred ideology, as in autocracies. I’d say the same thing if NPR were run by Tucker Carlson.
There is an obvious difference between the military and the media. The basic tenet of a democracy is that media is objective, and that the government is viewpoint neutral, without favor to any given ideology. When you openly court an obvious ideological extremist to run a public news source, you are venturing into anti-democratic waters, wherein the government funds a preferred ideology, as in autocracies. I’d say the same thing if NPR were run by Tucker Carlson.
An ideological extremist is one thing; a Putin apologist is quite another.