<A case can be made that public ownership has its place, too.
Please feel free to try to make such a case. Comparing the supposed quality of News Hour to other news sources is not going to do it.
For the record, I get most of my news off the Web, and rarely watch cable or TV news. When I do, I get more info off the "crawl" on the bottom than I do from the talking heads. At some point, some genius is going to realize that running the "crawl" over pretty nature pictures and classical music is going to blow the competition off the map.
A PBS chart shows that less than a fifth of PBS funding is government in nature. I believe it would be perfectly feasible to wean the organization from this funding. PBS would, of course, strongly disagree. Their web page on the subject claims that this funding is essential for raising other funds. Don't know about that.
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