no-one has mentioned the obvious - tax. the UK gives cash to the BBC via a compulsory television licence fee. say what you will about the beeb, it comes up wi

no-one has mentioned the obvious - tax. the UK gives cash to the BBC via a compulsory television licence fee. say what you will about the beeb, it comes up with some excellent stuff. someone more eloquent than me could surely make the argument that a functioning democracy needs an accurate and neutral repository of history as it happens. think of it as a news API and let others figure out how to make it local etc. tax in the US? YMMV...