You are correct that I have not read the paper. NBER charges $5 and it did
not appear to be worth the cost to me.
What is government control of the press? What happened to Raymond Bonner?
The big media are dependent on the government. Which outlet has seriously
challenged the government in the US?
Brad DeLong wrote:
> >We all agree that freedom of the press is very important.
>
> And now a bunch of people have gone out and actually done some work:
> they have compiled statistics on the extent of government control of
> the media, and actually found that when you look across countries you
> can begin to see the imprint of a free press in better socioeconomic
> outcomes. This would seem to me to be something that the friends of
> liberty would welcome: real statistical evidence that freedom of the
> press may well make a difference for real people's--not just
> intellectuals'--lives.
>
> So why the casual trashing of a working paper I don't think you've read?
>
> Why the eagerness to align yourself with state ownership of the
> media--thus taking sides with Metternich and President Nyazov of
> Turkmenistan, "owner and founder" of *all* the newspapers in the
> country, and against my ex-roommate Andrei and the editor of the
> _Neue Rheinische Zeitung_?
>
> Brad DeLong
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