It's easy for people to look at the highlights of journalism and think we must go back. It's more challenging to remember that yellow journalism and worse came

It's easy for people to look at the highlights of journalism and think we must go back. It's more challenging to remember that yellow journalism and worse came from that old old journalism. Perhaps it's only the best results of the old way we want, rather than all of them? The greatest tragedy of modern journalism has been its inability to adapt business models to a changing world. The old old assumption was that newspapers and TV had a near monopoly on user attention, with a tragic unwillingness to consider that maybe this wouldn't always be the case. Outlets more focused on subscriptions and less on advertising seem to have come through better. Perhaps the alignment between advertising and journalism was coincidental, rather than some iron law? > IMHO, we should just say the hell with it, tax advertising revenue, and fund journalism as a public good. Don't we already have outlets like that? How do you feel about Voice of America or People's Daily? IMHO, a lot of people distrust them as rather less than independent.