I would generalize that to putting control of political media in control of any branch or organ of the government....
Was the Production Code Administration all that bad? It wasn't an arm of the government, but it would have been had the Industry not taken the step of regulating itself. I do not believe any sort of self regulation is any longer possible. There is simply too much inbreeding between the existing media people and the Democrat party.
Yikes! two questions:
1) what happens if/when this democratically elected "Board of Governors" turns out to be left-leaning....
You mean unlike what we have now? Are you telling me you can conceive of a manner in which the media would be even more left wing? I figure we have pretty much pegged the needle on that, don't you?
And why would it be left leaning if it is elected from the States, or perhaps appointed by the State legislatures? Aren't most of the State legislatures currently in the hands of Republicans?
2) who determines what constitutes a "conservative" that is required to be hired, and what constitutes a "balanced opinion?" Because I think their idea of conservative would rapidly become something on the order of "Hillary Clinton", and "progressive" would be something to the left of Elizabeth Warren. Both types of music -- country and western!
I would suggest the designation of "adequate representation" would be made by the elected or Legislature appointed officials. I've been to a lot of party meetings, and i've met a lot of Republican elected officials, and I must say I generally trust their judgement about such matters.
I honestly think I disagree with this more than just about anything else I've read here. There are no good solutions to the problem of media bias, but the only one that offers any hope at all is keeping the government -- any arm of it -- as far away from regulating political speech as possible.
Uh Duh. That's what we have now. Have you not been keeping up with Obama's feeding stories to the press? We *HAVE* government control of media, so long as it is Democrat government. Hillary is controlling the press RIGHT NOW!
At least conservatives will have the option to buy their own media time, networks, without government oversight or permission required. The worst thing about this is wanting it to mirror representation in Congress. Because what that means is that as soon as one party gains a clear political upper hand (as the Democrats did in the 2008) elections, they'll also have control of the machinery that controls/regulates political speech.
I take it you haven't been keeping up with what has been going on lately with the FCC Commissioners?
We already have leftwing control. There is no place else to go but up.
What you are suggesting is that we leave the left wing control that already exists, locked into the system.
As a practical matter, this makes a solution to our larger problems unsolvable.