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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Journalism as a public good. To be funded but not managed via public money.

Why should journalism be "privatized" to where an advertising stream is needed of sufficient size, or there is retrenchment and less free reporting and opinion expressed? Is Journalism lacking in inherent value? Whether it moves to the Internet including video, or not, if information is not soundly available to the public how can a voting public make sound decisions on political matters?

Read and agree or disagree with the thoughts of this link.