Comments on: One million dollars and counting http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/23/one-million-dollars-and-counting/ a blog about information Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:20:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Don Marti http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/23/one-million-dollars-and-counting/comment-page-1/#comment-86542 Don Marti Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:37:52 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/01/23/one-million-dollars-and-counting/#comment-86542 I think you're describing how public radio and TV finance themselves in the USA. Here, you can tell the Evil companies because they sponsor NPR. (It's "Archer Daniels Midland: Supermarket to the World" on NPR, not "Archer Daniels Midland: lobbyist for pernicious, economically unjustified trade policies that impoverish developing-country farmers"). Would be nice to keep the government funding out of peer production projects, though -- and eliminate it from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting -- since "tax dollars" now add way more in political debate than they're worth. I think you’re describing how public radio and TV finance themselves in the USA. Here, you can tell the Evil companies because they sponsor NPR. (It’s “Archer Daniels Midland: Supermarket to the World” on NPR, not “Archer Daniels Midland: lobbyist for pernicious, economically unjustified trade policies that impoverish developing-country farmers”).

Would be nice to keep the government funding out of peer production projects, though — and eliminate it from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — since “tax dollars” now add way more in political debate than they’re worth.

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