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Re: The New York Times to Offer Open Access on Web and Apps for the Election

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Another discussion I'd like to see come out of this election: the idea of information as a public good.

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/japan/japan.h...

Neither the advertising nor the paywall/subscription models are serving to either provide the public with information, or to foster quality and relevant information. Both are in fact the problem.

Addressing an open-access model, with a tax-based compensation for authors and publishers strikes me as a vastly preferable model.

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