That's true, but government funded media has different incentives than private media. To be honest, at least in the past few decades where media has become so concentrated, we basically have state media anyway but it is profit driven and sensationalist. Public media would at least allow investigative reporting to come back and provide an alternative choice in the market that is less sensationalist.
The bbc was recently caught splicing trump clips together to make it sound like he said something else.
Mind you I don't like Trump but the BBC is often touted as the best example in the anglosphere and repeatedly shows it isn't immune to these issues.
I do think it's good that there's a well funded option tho.
I'd love it if they also focused on non opinionated documentaries since private media gutted ones like NatGeo and such.
Oh yea it's definitely not immune to these issues, and BBC will take the perspective of the british government "when it matters" to foreign policy people, but it's not like the billionaire owned press is better in that respect. Better to have "competition" in my view.
