BRINGING A NEW MEANING TO “STATE-CONTROLLED MEDIA:” Journalist Funded by Stimulus Money. “Today’s new-media ethical quandary: Should a nonprofit news outlet dedicated to public-interest investigative journalism extract substantial amounts of funding from the government it’s covering? That’s the question being confronted by the award-winning San Francisco Public Press, which, according to director Michael Stoll, is now paying the salary of one of its editorial employees with money from a San Francisco jobs-stimulus program.”