Well, if people aren't ready to pay for "accurate, current information on topics that are relevant to the continued health and progress of society" may be said

Well, if people aren't ready to pay for "accurate, current information on topics that are relevant to the continued health and progress of society" may be said sources of such information should naturally die-off and people which weren't ready to fund them should bear the consequences which will be disastrous? On other hand, this bias thing is not inherent. ABC survives somehow in Australia, even though current clowns in the shitshow in Canberra work hard to kill it.