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A free press doesn’t take government handouts

NOVEMBER 29, 2021 | by Jeff Jacoby | BOSTON GLOBE

Op-ed by Jeff Jacoby, from October 24 2021, subheadlined “Let politicians prop up the media, and the media will prop up the politicians.” Includes “… Subsidies nearly always amount to confiscating money from the many in order to redistribute it to the few. Those who advocate funneling funds to local newspapers via tax breaks for publishers, advertisers, and subscribers are really saying that if people won’t support local journalism voluntarily, the government should make them do so involuntarily by manipulating the tax code.”

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