Within this system the nation uses taxes to guide economic development. There are more and less relevant branches of the market to the national independence.
The basic idea of guranteeing freedom in our dominant national structures are free votes on parliaments, national institutions that are devided into legaslative, juridactive and executive organisations and a free press and media as another independet control entity. Access to food and transportation are usually not in the standard books such as free information flow or freedom and access to education and freedom of expression in also art is way off comon national state design principles.
The freedom of press and media is inparticular important in times of crisis and all and everyone has to watch these days that all newsoutlets are showing only one side of the picture that is scarely aline with the official national statements.
We have a in all publishing markets oligopoles or even monopoles.
It is difficult to set up a radio or TV station, it is hard to print your own magazine or newspaper and running a news blogg or media website is in no way easier, just due to financial issues already.
Currently, a few internationaly operating companies are dominating publically available news, which would be usually refered to as the public opinion. Well, humans can make up their own mind and most understand that the freedom of speech is a two way road...
Nations well can create tax cuts for small media outlets down to 0% and use their own education facilities to build up all kind of media outlets based on their universities and schools. Every public financed institution of education is capable, but possibly not allowed, to build up and run a radio station broadcasting in range of the quarter, town or county and online even world wide focusing on all possibly topics independenty.
Playing music might kill that enterprise by copyright claims coming from another oligopole, that based on my own experiance has a lot of material simply copied itself, but without leaving a system relevant trace, and 0% tax reliant, hardly profitable small broadcasters could be considered as music advertisers for those big profitable players based on the system.
We have three parties in all western nations. The national institutions, companies and the people. All three are interconnected, but some enteties are better than others in using the loopholes than others.
The good news is, not only the bad guys....hold me beer.
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