There's a pretty hard limit to the volume and style of content that can be produced by amateurs and hobbyists. For a start, it's limited to people who are alre

There's a pretty hard limit to the volume and style of content that can be produced by amateurs and hobbyists. For a start, it's limited to people who are already rich enough to have the time to spare. But certain types of content - deep investigative journalism for example - should always cost significant amounts of money. You want the best people in the world at that craft to be able to spend as long as takes, and travel to wherever they need to go, to uncover the truth in a story. This kind of work plays a crucial role in society, by keeping a watch on the political, legal and corporate worlds and helping to expose corruption and abuses of power. It's likely already the case that too little good investigative journalism is being done these days. We should be looking for ways to have more of it, not less.