Columbia University Pres calls for global, government funded media organization

 A Ministry of Information?

The press is part of the marketplace of ideas through which we seek to understand our world and find truth. It also serves the needs of citizens in exercising their sovereign responsibilities. It does this by exposing the misdeeds and errors of government, and by informing us more generally about the issues we must face and resolve. Collectively, the press is our national public forum.

Now, with globalization well underway, it is imperative that we begin to think more systematically about how we will build and develop the concept of a free press for a new global public forum.

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The press, as we have come to define its role in public life, is a public good, and public goods are never completely realized in a free-market environment. I have argued in the past that as the world becomes more interconnected and interdependent, we need a greater commitment of public funding for the press so that US newsgathering operations may successfully establish a broader global reach and footprint.

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That is why I propose something new, an American World Service: a media institution with sufficient funding to bring the highest-quality American journalism to the global public forum.

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Globalization is the great change of our era, wrought of economic forces forging connections throughout the world and of new technologies making human communication far easier. We need institutions designed to help us understand, tame, and channel these largely positive forces, and a free and independent global press is one such institution.

More than anything, we need a change in consciousness—to envision the problem we must solve as not only a matter of securing human rights for peoples but also securing the information and ideas we need to govern effectively in an increasingly integrated world. This is the ultimate stage of a progressive shift from the local to the national to the global. An American World Service will help us get there.

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Note: When you read the linked article, pay particular attention to the sections on China. I love how our utopian globalizers keep stumbling over the fact that China isn't on board with our trendy lefty ideological obsessions, never will be, and is moving inexorably towards parity with us. Inconvenient, that.

But don't worry,  great white bwana man is going to jaw jaw them into line eventually, because his vision is so self-evidently wonderful. Just give him a global in reach, government funded, "independent" media organization to play with. Yeah, that'll do it. Then he can get everyone on board with The Narrative.

These people can't win; reality is overtaking them. They can, though, do a good bit of damage on the way out.