Government Involvement in the Media
The whole Anita Dunn/Glenn Beck thing, coupled with comments from earlier debates has got me thinking.
For those of you who don't know, Anita Beck is the White House Communications chief who said "Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control" Here is a very biased article on it -- I advise you only watch the videos and make your own thoughts here.
Rather than getting into the specifics of this (which could get very America-centric and partisan), I was wondering... How much government involvement should there be in the new media? The FCC and obscenity laws exist in almost every nation, so that seems to be acceptable. Should the government allow news organizations to lie? Should there be different rules for print, TV and internet?
For those of you who don't know, Anita Beck is the White House Communications chief who said "Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control" Here is a very biased article on it -- I advise you only watch the videos and make your own thoughts here.
Rather than getting into the specifics of this (which could get very America-centric and partisan), I was wondering... How much government involvement should there be in the new media? The FCC and obscenity laws exist in almost every nation, so that seems to be acceptable. Should the government allow news organizations to lie? Should there be different rules for print, TV and internet?