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Bailout Cash for Newspapers? A Cure That Would Only Worsen the Underlying Disease…

by David | Jan 30, 2009 | Blogs, Digital Migration, New Marketing, new media, Newspaper Deathwatch, Politics & New Media

I posted this as a comment here, already, but it bears repeating. While the concept of a bailout for newspapers (and allegedly for good journalism) seems attractive at first blush, I fear that in practice, the billions in bailout funds would suffer the same fate as...

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