A £2-a-month levy on broadband could save our newspapers

Proceeds could be distributed based on UK online readership and reinvested to protect great journalism.
 So Writes this Journalist in The Guardian.
 Suggestion not received well, so as there is strength in numbers here was Papalscope's response.

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Most certainly not. Why on the earth should one have to support yesterday's technology the content of which deteriorates seemingly by the day. The National Press is too expensive and at best repetitive of news one will have seen on Television, heard on the Radio, or read and debated on the Internet the day before. The world has moved on and left Journalism in its wake. The Printing Unions need to share the blame for the demise of the Press with its Editors. The former on account of the unreasonable demands it made on Management, the latter for turning to soft pornography in an attempt to boost sales. Will not mention any names for fear of being sued for libel, but any paper that chooses to try and titillate rather than inform its readers deserves to fail, and such papers are not too hard to find in their 'on line personas.' However I do not doubt that Government will soon tax broadband to fund its own excesses.