increasing the presence of public service broadcasting
I don’t know how well that would work in the US—it seems that existing public service broadcasters (PBS and NPR) are perceived as biased by American conservatives.
A related idea I’ve seen is media companies which sell cancellation insurance (archive). The idea being that this is a business model which incentivizes obtaining the trust and respect of as many people as possible, as opposed to inspiring a smaller number of true believers to share/subscribe. One advantage of this idea is it doesn’t require any laws to get passed. (As polarization gets worse, I expect passing depolarization laws gets harder and harder.)
I don’t know how well that would work in the US—it seems that existing public service broadcasters (PBS and NPR) are perceived as biased by American conservatives.
A related idea I’ve seen is media companies which sell cancellation insurance (archive). The idea being that this is a business model which incentivizes obtaining the trust and respect of as many people as possible, as opposed to inspiring a smaller number of true believers to share/subscribe. One advantage of this idea is it doesn’t require any laws to get passed. (As polarization gets worse, I expect passing depolarization laws gets harder and harder.)
Here’s another idea for the list: https://twitter.com/JohnArnoldFndtn/status/1266701479404060678