Save the Media From This

Sadly, her proposal is shocking in its naive economics — from an economist! — and in the basic business questions it fails to address... In France, by the way, journalism is a profession that “entitles the journalist to tax deductions.” I find this ethically appalling, just as I remain shocked that journalists in Germany get discounts on everything from phones to cars. Watchdogs get payoffs from those whom they are meant to dog. .. Cagé — an economist, remember — tries to quantify the quality of journalism on the number of pages and — get this — the font and page size of newspapers. Our problem in news, Lord knows, is not fewer words.