(NAF) The FTC recently hosted the final workshop in a series of three that tackled the question “How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?” Comments from the assembled experts and observers ran a by-now-familiar gamut of pleading special cases and offering standalone solutions.
Media execs, pundits and professors offered up predictions that the market would solve everything, cautious optimism about new nonprofit news experiments, and controversial proposals for taxing advertisements or small electronics in order to fund more public media… READ IT