Monroe Price: Journalism Bailout Bill: The News and Information for Democracy Act of 2011?
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
... violate antitrust laws. (The history of government support for a press is superbly told in Paul Starr's " The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications ." The case for legislation is the relatively easy part: our idea of a democratic society depends on the notion of informed voters, and of a press that can serve as a watchdog and critic of power. The emerged...
