What about cities and counties funding newspapers? The author thinks that there's at least some good DC reporting from national papers and non-profit media, but that what suffers are the local papers.
Funding at the local level could be provided by ballot initiatives that pull money directly from taxes instead of the general budget. That way local politicians can't influence the news too much.
People are pretty passionate about funding libraries. I could see the same people accepting newspaper taxes.
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What about cities and counties funding newspapers? The author thinks that there's at least some good DC reporting from national papers and non-profit media, but that what suffers are the local papers.
Funding at the local level could be provided by ballot initiatives that pull money directly from taxes instead of the general budget. That way local politicians can't influence the news too much.
People are pretty passionate about funding libraries. I could see the same people accepting newspaper taxes.