In America, we have a free press, guaranteed by the Constitution. As a capitalist, here's what I don't get.
In most instances, newspapers, magazines and other media outlets are permitted unfettered freedom to seek and acquire information for free. Then those outlets package that information and charge customers and advertisers for access to it.
So, for the public, the news in the Wall Street Journal, which the WSJ acquires for free, under guarantee of the Constitution, is not available for free to the citizenry of the United States. Taking another view, if Lance Armstrong is named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated and the edition sells more copies than any other issue of SI in history, the magazine reaps a financial bonanza but Lance gets nada from the magazine sales.
Why don't the subjects covered in the news get a share of the financial gain, since they are the providers of the material that generated the sale and profit?
O.D.O.o.O.D.B.
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