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FTC floats idea of a News Media (Drudge) Tax!
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FTC floats idea of a News Media (Drudge) Tax!
EDITORIAL: FTC floats Drudge tax
Journalism can reinvent itself without government 'help'
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Journalism can reinvent itself without government 'help'
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/4/ftc-floats-drudge-tax/The ideas being batted around to save the industry share a common theme: They are designed to empower bureaucrats, not consumers. For instance, one proposal would, "Allow news organizations to agree jointly on a mechanism to require news aggregators and others to pay for the use of online content, perhaps through the use of copyright licenses."
In other words, government policy would encourage a tax on websites like the Drudge Report, a must-read source for the news links of the day, so that the agency can redistribute the funds collected to various newspapers. Such a tax would hit other news aggregators, such as Digg, Fark and Reddit, which not only gather links, but provide a forum for a lively and entertaining discussion of the issues raised by the stories. Fostering a robust public-policy debate, not saving a particular business model, should be the goal of journalism in the first place.
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