Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: government media isbad for you

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>But maintaining independence of thought and critique is really hard 
>>when you are paid out of a government budget.
>
>But it's really easy when you're paid out of the budgets of 
>advertisers, who don't like anything critical of business 
>civilization, or even anything a bit unconventional that might force 
>people to stop and think for a second - stopping and thinking being 
>the enemies of a friendly advertising environment. Right?
>
>Doug

I wouldn't say easy.... I would say "less impossible," however. Maybe 
its the residual Hayekian viruses injected into me during that 
two-hour blank in my memory when I gave a seminar at Chicago Business 
School...


Brad DeLong