1. Apropos of nothing, let's talk about the trouble with running a publication depending on benevolence of a rich patron.
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2. He who pays the piper, I'm reliably told, calls the tunes. In other words: the bourgeoisie own the means of production
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3. "I think it would be fun to run a newspaper." Charles Foster Kane said. And it was, for a while.
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4. And it is fun to work for a rich man who is freely throwing around his cash. I was in the employ of Conrad Black in his salad days.
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5. The problem, of course, is that if you take a rich man's money, you have to tolerate a rich man's peccadilloes.
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6. If you took Martin Peretz's money, you have to turn a blind eye to his various bigotries (or worse, service them).
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7. If you take John R. MacArthur's money, you have to work with his digital media framework.
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@jledbetter Agreed. Which is why it's good to spell out what the strings are, so we have no illusions.
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