Evil people (such as the Guardianistas) suggesting an evil thing (a special tax to fund their wickedness).

The logic of the universe is confirmed.

I am comforted.

For one thing, unlike the BBC model, the funds collected don’t go to a particular favored entity – they would be “earned” by the recipients based on readership.

The model is nonetheless fundamentally flawed, because there is no truly reliable way to measure page views, and also because many British sites get traffic from non-British readers. Page3.com is pretty popular with Americans, I think. And the Daily Mail now has an “American” edition of their website which loads if the reader’s IP address is in the U.S.

That last should have read:

. . . but the medium would then match the value and utility of the content.

There is probably something similar going on in the U K at the BBC that compares to what has been happening to “Network” TV in the U S. Now huge drop-offs have begun in cable networks as well.

BBC radio is probably atrophying since it has nothing like “talk radio” of the U S.

Whatever “journalism” is supposed to connote, it has generally disintegrated into forms of waging influence, or, in a few cases, seeking pre-eminence.

There are simply too many wordsmiths, even on the internet. So, the maintenance costs have to be minimized, which the internet does, which other media, print and visual (& radio in most nations) do not.

Look what has come of “streaming” broadcasts over the WWW (especially classical music – left forlorn by “Idols” of the visual media).

And, the money-spinner – advertising; the monetizer of so much; it too now takes a different course to either entice or inform.

Unfortunately, with modern plumbing, the Guardian, NYT and similar print media do not even qualify for the former uses made of older Sears catalogues. Perhaps, with better paper technology they could, but the medium would then match the value of the content.

And why the hell 1994?

Science section: relative dark matter observation in cast iron cookware.

We got the same meme here in the Land of Oz too.

Quality Journalism = Fairfax Media – A pack of leftist organs being nudged into oblivion. State handouts being the ever increasingly touted solution.

That this journey to nowhere is partly powered by the state financed leftist ABC handing free content to the same target audience passes them by.

That reducing state financing to the ABC might help save Fairfax is outside their worldview.