"In other words, government policy would encourage a tax on websites like the Drudge Report, a must-read source for the news links of the day, so that the agenc

"In other words, government policy would encourage a tax on websites like the Drudge Report, a must-read source for the news links of the day, so that the agency can redistribute the funds collected to various newspapers. Such a tax would hit other news aggregators, such as Digg, Fark and Reddit, which not only gather links, but provide a forum for a lively and entertaining discussion of the issues raised by the stories. Fostering a robust public-policy debate, not saving a particular business model, should be the goal of journalism in the first place." Maybe this article isn't that well written or I'm not reading correctly, but I did get the impression that they are trying to charge for something