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How Media Failed America

Happy Tuesday War & Peaceniks. Let’s go public!

“The most obvious answer is usually correct.” - William of Occam

Why do other countries like Germany, France, Norway, and the UK have free education and health care, while America does not? Why are elections in France are held on Sundays, while elections in the US are held on Tuesdays? For that matter, why are election cycles in the US so much longer and so much more full of money than any other democracy on earth? Why?

America has one of the worst-informed electorates of any democracy on earth.

Most of the world’s longest-standing democracies have storied traditions of Public Service Media - government or publicly funded media organizations whose missions are to educate and inform the populations they serve. It’s literally all in the name: Public Service Media.

The United States does not have a true Public Service Media. America provides globally embarrassing little support for the public media we do have. The Corporation for Public Broadca…