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| | AsiaMedia :: NHK in the headlights |
 | | 's Broadcast Law, which established NHK as a semi-governmental organization whose goal was twofold: to present "abundant and high quality broadcast programs for the public welfare" and to inncrease broadcast technology using government support. |
 | | NHK, he says, has tended to approach its coverage "in a totally neutral, factual, and non-interesting way." Moreover, Krauss claims, while NHK is a reliable source of public affairs information, it is also "very bad about providing perspective, different points of view, or interpretation" of that information. |
 | | Privatizing NHK, he says, would force it to be more accountable to the public in the same ways that the recently-privatized telephone and rail industries have given consumers more control. |
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