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From defunding NPR and PBS to kicking reporters out of the White House, it’s an array of conservative priorities and Trumpian retreads.
“We don’t know whether or how this nonprofit and its fund will operate, and likely won’t for some months (nonprofit governance is many things, but fast is not one of them).”
“Every country needs to address the theft of intellectual property that diminishes both the incentives and ability to produce the news on which we all — including the platforms — depend. The bargaining codes were a start.”
“We talk to a lot of towns where there is no newspaper anymore; there’s no community center anymore; the town store shut down. And this is kind of it.”
“We do think our results can inform readers’ priors about the potential effects of social media in the final weeks of high-profile national elections.”
“We observe a dramatic increase in posts containing screenshots of Canadian news stories in the post-ban period.”
What’s important to watch, in this gnarly legislation filled with acronyms, are two simple things: Money In and Money Out.
“If we accept that news is a public good, not something we can treat as a product to be traded like soap, then we have to develop economic models that somehow get the public to pay for it.”