That's what makes the problem so bedeviling. Journalism has been afflicted with the same maximalist, parasitic ideology as every other institution. But other in

That's what makes the problem so bedeviling. Journalism has been afflicted with the same maximalist, parasitic ideology as every other institution. But other institutions have a couple of paths out: the profit motive has the advantage of being insensitive to ideology, and government has builtin safeguards against lunatic populists like trumpists or the woke. But journalism can't really take advantage of either of these. The market doesn't steer it towards the socially optimal objective, and independence from the state is a core part of its value.