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[Deep Thoughts] Team by Team, Reporters Baffled

Postby Kyle » Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:22 am

How important is freedom of the press to a healthy society?
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Re: [Deep Thoughts] Team by Team, Reporters Baffled

Postby Tahlvin » Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:46 am

Critical.
Wash: "This is gonna get pretty interesting."
Mal: "Define interesting."
Wash: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die?"
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Re: [Deep Thoughts] Team by Team, Reporters Baffled

Postby Zen » Mon Sep 25, 2017 1:17 pm

"The lines between kindness, apathy, and thickheadedness can be very thin." - Nakatani Nio Sensei
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Re: [Deep Thoughts] Team by Team, Reporters Baffled

Postby bralbovsky » Mon Sep 25, 2017 1:28 pm

"Before enlightenment, you chop the wood and carry the water.
After enlightenment, you chop the wood and carry the water."
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Re: [Deep Thoughts] Team by Team, Reporters Baffled

Postby WillyGilligan » Mon Sep 25, 2017 2:19 pm

Freedom of the press is vital, but what do you do if the press is being irresponsible? Alex Jones is a trusted source for a scary amount of people.
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Re: [Deep Thoughts] Team by Team, Reporters Baffled

Postby Phoebe » Tue Sep 26, 2017 9:19 am

For a society like ours it's an absolute prerequisite, but obviously not a sufficient condition. I can imagine smaller or differently organized communities where free speech would be enough and a whole system for representing and communicating news and events wouldn't be needed. Not relevant for us. But it's interesting because this is one of the big reasons why I don't think communist or true socialist-type systems can ever be good. You have to have a whole independent industry of Journalism.

In response to Willy's good question I would say you also have to have a robust system of education that achieves public goods. Personally I prefer public education, but the education certainly doesn't have to be public to fulfill that role. It sure can't be a system where truth is optional, though.

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