Common car L.

No motorbikes in that picture.

you can’t trust a Trump-like figure not to go in and take complete control of a single nationalized news source

The status quo, where “trump-like figures” own any media of consequence, is not meaningfully different from your worst-case scenerio of a “trump-like figure” taking over the media.

The bourgeois fund the media and make sure people who are ideologically aligned with them are promoted because it promotes their interests, we would see the same backlash whether they are stripped of control by the FCC or nationalization. I figure cutting them out entirely leaves fewer avenues for them to influence their media.

Any arrangement is state-controlled by virtue of the state being the only entity capable of enforcing any arrangement, the only difference is if the state delegates control to the bourgeois or another entity. The latter at least has the potential to be beholden to the workers.

I am not proposing we waste any energy bringing back the fairness doctrine, its purpose was easily circumvented while it existed.

democratized by the working class

Yes, nationalize billionaire-owned media, set up oversight boards appointed by the media workers and state. Restrict salaries of pundits, writers, editors etc such that they can’t exceed the median income.

We’ve seen what the FCC trying to implement fairness looks like. Requiring two perspectives, both aligned against the interests of the workers, wasn’t productive.

governmental regulatory body, created with the purpose of determining if the reporting was factual

Yes, thats the FCC, they did that historically, and required equal time/space for both democratic candidates and republican candidates. Naturally that meant channels would count up every 3 second clip and replay, and surrogates/pundits didn’t count at all.

Who said we should do nothing? We should recognize all reporting is biased, and democratize media so its biased towards us, the working class.

Bringing back the fairness doctrine just means for every hour of “we need to invade Iraq/n because they’re evil brown muslims” we get an hour of “We need to invade Iraq/n because the people yearn for freedom”

Earnest liberals and conservatives

Both those groups support the existence of capitalism. Wealth inequality and capitalists owning media are natural results of this.

If they stopped supporting the system that caused this, they wouldn’t be liberals/conservatives, they’d be leftists.

free and fair reporting

Thats not possible. Everything is propaganda; the effect of choosing which aspects if a story to emphasize and what context to include is a zero-sum game as far as shaping public perception.

percentage of profit

Most media are loss makers. By funding it, oligarchs are able reinforce a system that keeps the money flowing into their bank accounts.