SEMM* #234 --Saving The News Business!

     A big-name investigative reporter has a solution to funding journalism: a fee on broadband access...maybe a couple of bucks a month...with the money distributed to online news providers based on their "audience".
     Fortunately, this is happening in England.
     If someone suggested that in the U.S., they would be laughed OFF-line.
     a) Americans already hate the size of their ISP bills.
     b) Americans already hate the media and won't pay a dime if they can avoid it going to the papers or networks.
     c) A lot of Americans are gong nuts over Obamacare because if forces them to pay a penalty if they don't have insurance. Imagine what they would think about being forced to fund the media?

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