roundtable: Re: Content is the cargo of truth

roundtable: Re: Content is the cargo of truth

Re: Content is the cargo of truth

Matt York (myork@videomaker.com)
Wed, 22 Mar 1995 11:11:43 -0800 

Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 11:11:43 -0800
Message-Id: <199503221911.LAA12232@video.hidden.videomaker.com>
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: myork@videomaker.com (Matt York)
Subject: Re: Content is the cargo of truth


>> At 9:41 PM 3/20/95, Matt York wrote:
>> >In a democracy the marketplace for ideas dictates "who is heard saying
>> >what". In a socialist system, the government takes money from its
>> >citizens to make sure the "right people are heard saying what they think
>> >should be". In a communist system the government starts out itself
>> >"being the right people to be heard" but then degenerates into
>> >"manufacturing who is heard and it is them". Then we have little red
>> >books and rewritten history.
>
>...
>> On 3/22 Vicotor wrote 
>> Matt's statement above is simply a cheap shot aimed at confusing 
>> discussion about what regulatory framework is appropriate for the 
>> market mechanisms to operate within, and which public initiatives should 
>> be part of the mix. He's saying: "do it my way or you're a pinko."
>
>
>  He is saying less than that, its part of a scheme to piggy back off 
>of the great anti-communist religion of the US that fed the war machine 
>for several decades but finally ended when the "enemy" turned up dead 
>and we turned up near bankrupt.


You've grossly misinterpreted what I "said". I am involved in no "scheme 
to piggy back off of the great anti-communist religion".

I aim to confuse no one. My goal is to focus attention on the imbalance 
of the telecommunications market. Small independent video producers can't 
gain access to distribution. If they could, then could harness market 
economics and would participate in the TV industry. They could exercise 
their "freedom of the video press" and Jeffersonian pluralism could 
experience a rebirth.

I am not against taxing citizens and then routing the cash to "people who 
prefer to avoid profit making TV programs. For me, profit is a form of 
funding my work. I've learned how to maintain consistent funding in this 
fashion.

Don't discount profit as a mechanism to achieve social good. If you can 
get funding from the government for video programming , GREAT!! But it 
seems like the wrong era to be looking at handouts exclusively.  There 
are many ways to cultivate social good on the NII.

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