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Re:5G: The outsourced elephant in the room by fallingknife on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:25PM (#26846319)
If the government has the power to grant money and set metrics, it also has the power to take it away, and change the metrics. So if you are getting a grant based on "objective metrics," it might be a good idea to not piss of the people defining them.
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Re:5G: The outsourced elephant in the room by Swenrekcah on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:31PM (#26846362)
Of course but that is a move that costs the government something in political capital. There are always dangers in criticising the powers that be, but I can not see that these kinds of press grants are a big problem.

If the country is a democratic one to begin with, the grants do more good by insulating the press from commercial powers than they do bad in this way, in my opinion.

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Re:5G: The outsourced elephant in the room by fallingknife on Saturday April 17, 2021 @06:51PM (#26848139)
It may well be a good trade off. I'm just pointing out that there is never a way to be completely free from whoever is paying the bills.
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