TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agoJournalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Fundedwww.scientificamerican.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1459arrow-down116file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareTurkey_Titty_city@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agothis is why universities have endowments. of course, they don’t use them like they should, but that’s another issue entirely.
minus-squarebauhaus@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoThat’s the problem with charity— free reporting becomes a privilege bestowed to a select a few by private institutions and subject to their whims rather than a right guaranteed to everyone by the government. 
this is why universities have endowments.
of course, they don’t use them like they should, but that’s another issue entirely.
That’s the problem with charity— free reporting becomes a privilege bestowed to a select a few by private institutions and subject to their whims rather than a right guaranteed to everyone by the government.