All entries tagged: Dean Baker
A plan to support creative work — 100 government dollars at a time
The air’s been thick this summer with new proposals for taxpayer-supported journalism, from tax exemptions to government grants to endless court battles. This sort of talk ruffles people who are rightly skeptical of government-run media.
But in 2003, as the music industry was disintegrating, lefty economist Dean Baker floated an idea for government funding of journalists, [...]
