The Future of the News: A Discussion with Roger Mosey
New Books in Economics
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Do You Think Regulating Television Is a Bad Idea?
You are the sort of person who might have ended up regulating the industry. The most important thing it seems to me is to wave that the central broadcasters and the traditional media behave. If they do compelling interesting content that engages large numbers of people I hope that will win out. There is no other, you can't get truth to win by regulation. You have to do it by making sure you have confidence in the media that is going to be very inaccurate. Do you think journalists are too pessimistic? Look, I think that is... I mean they often are pessimistic because it makes a bad mistake. But if I look across the media industry, there are fantastic young people who want to do the
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