A "government-supported, twenty-four-hour news channel devoted to global news" would make sense in the U.S., writes Justin D. Martin.
One benefit: "the network will give the United States a
voice in global journalism more fitting of its place among the largest modern democracies" -- rather than, say CNN's coverage of "nonsense" instead of the newsworthy, as when "Libyan rebels surged
into Qaddafi's capital of Tripoli [and the network] fixated on the wedding of reality TV bombshell Kim Kardashian."
Martin describes how such a network could work, debunking myths like the
"exaggerated fears of government-supported news."
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