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I would be extremely upset if someone put an initiative on the California ballot outlawing the payment of salaries to journalists.

No one from the outside has enough knowledge - or enough chutzpah - to second-guess the system, certainly not by outlawing entire methods of compensation.

In "capitation" plans that pay doctors a flat rate per enrolled patient, he says, "physicians can get paid for not working." Such static analysis, which sounds suspiciously like a plea for protection from competition, is as silly as outlawing salaries for journalists.