BBC and other public run stations here in Germany give me relatively high quality independent news compared to that in the US. I'd suggest the same could be done for the US. I'm not sure they can be justified in a conservative world view though. Can they?
At least even republicans in congress are pushing back the FCC changes to ownership laws.
Check this chart out to see how bad media consolidation has become.
Quality? Sure. But let's go one better. Why should they? There are a myriad of sources, and when you add the web into the mix, that number grows even more.
So big is bad when applied to non-coercive private enterprise, but big is good when appiled to coercive government?