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  • Khurram0

    Actually yes, going on from the newspaper argument, and your hysterical reaction re: "This is the first step to stalinism!"

    Would you prefer a world where, due to the "invisible hand of the free market" where the news media industry would have collapsed, and this so-called "fourth estate" would have disappeared to be replaced by opinionated bloggers - whom no one trusts, nor pays attention to, nor have the expertise to check the centres of power.

    Would you perefer that scenario than say a cash incentive from the tax-payer that would help the industry survive.. what say you?

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    • Newspapers today produce crap anyway.. and yes I'd like to see bloggers evolve to become online papers.raf
    • News media industry moguls aren't good guys, they're the same kind of people who run pharma and oil companies.raf
    • I don't pity them, I want to see the rise of independent journalism.raf
    • Well you jsut answered a DIFFERENT question. I'm giving you two options:Khurram
    • 1) News as is today, 2) No news, but bloggers AS THEY ARE TODAY.Khurram
    • of course you coudl say 3) The free market will ALWAYS produce the "morally" best optionKhurram
    • I don't get the q. News as today is shifting, Davids beat Goliaths who had monopoly on propaganda so far.raf
    • Cost of setting up a paper was prohibitive, hence monopolies. Now you can start online paper anytime.raf
    • It is a good shift. Big papers should adapt or die, nothing wrong with that. They weren't objective anyway.raf
    • its a retarded question.
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