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Fair point, they won't be perfect for everyone and they may rightly or wrongly ding organizations that people hold in high esteem (e.g. when they displayed the
by mikeyouse 10y ago
Fair point, they won't be perfect for everyone and they may rightly or wrongly ding organizations that people hold in high esteem (e.g. when they displayed the rank incompetence of the Red Cross a few years ago).
I'd argue that funding ProPublica and then funding an outfit who takes a contrary position on whatever issue is important to you is a better solution though. We need more journalism not less.
- nitrogen 10y agoThat's a useful concept. Sort of like a free speech hedge, or like buying carbon offsets. Could be gamed, though -- start an extreme paper to pump donations to your centrist paper ;)
- icebraining 10y agoIf they're both high quality enough, then citing xkcd, "mission accomplished."