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Monday September 24, 2012
The reality is that the internet-tax plan would do very little to help subsidize journalism that is in the public interest. Instead, it would be used to subsidize a failing business model, one that continues to be based primarily around a dying medium called print. How would that benefit society as a whole? I think Carr is right when he says the industry needs to be more creative in finding a range of small ideas and solutions to their problems, not depending on a massive publicly-funded bailout. — <a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/09/24/no-an-internet-tax-wont-save-journalism-or-newspapers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20pcorg%20(paidContent)" target="_blank">No, an internet tax won’t save journalism — or newspapers — Tech News and Analysis</a> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://pulse.infoneer.net/" target="_blank">infoneer-pulse</a>)