Re:Journalism Needs Government Help
by jorgeortiz85 on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @06:48AM
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I was trying to refute the argument that a government-funded news source is necessarily plagued by conflicts of interests and results in poor journalism.
As to your point about the source of funding... Given that most written news is moving online, would you support a tax on internet service to support written journalism?
Re:Journalism Needs Government Help
by Finster on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @10:21AM
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I agree with your point, and taxing internet to pay for newspapers would be horrible... but it is the kind of funding scheme I would expect from the U.S. Congress.
As to your point about the source of funding... Given that most written news is moving online, would you support a tax on internet service to support written journalism?