Sunday, May 10, 2009

The tragedy of the (media) commons

The real question is for the public, not journalists: Does it want to pony up for news?
So says Frank Rich in a column titled "The American press on suicide watch". The problem is the usual Tragedy of the Commons problem: collectively "we the public" might be better off if we paid for news, but individually we all try to get our news for free.

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