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If the government has the power to grant money and set metrics, it also has the power to take it away, and change the metrics. So if you are getting a grant ba
by fallingknife 6y ago
If the government has the power to grant money and set metrics, it also has the power to take it away, and change the metrics. So if you are getting a grant based on "objective metrics," it might be a good idea to not piss of the people defining them.
- Swenrekcah 6y agoOf course but that is a move that costs the government something in political capital. There are always dangers in criticising the powers that be, but I can not see that these kinds of press grants are a big problem. If the country is a democratic one to begin with, the grants do more good by insulating the press from commercial powers than they do bad in this way, in my opinion.
- fallingknife 6y agoIt may well be a good trade off. I'm just pointing out that there is never a way to be completely free from whoever is paying the bills.