Translation: we want your money !
I am so sick of elites foisting their idea of "collective repsonibility" off on me. Just repeat after me guys at Wash Po: nobody owes you anything !<
Anyway, it seems to me that Americans, through their use of the internet to get news, are creating a new journalistsic ecosystem. It's just not the way these guys would like it, so they are going to use the power of government to sway things their way.
problem: the internet does not get news, reporters do. And reporters must be paid or they go find new jobs doing something else.
to pick a paper, The internet allows me to read the reporting and opion pieces of the Boston Globe about national figures from Mass. and about the local impact of national issues. My reading Boston Globe online, second hand means they get no ad revenue from me. If the Globe goes under, then I don’t get to read for free anymore.
It seems to me we need the newspapers to improve the quality of thier reporting, not die.