It could be said that free markets are bad for journalism. Markets optimize for cost, so if you can create a product that looks like journalism but is less exp

It could be said that free markets are bad for journalism. Markets optimize for cost, so if you can create a product that looks like journalism but is less expensive to produce, it is likely to be the winner in a market system. This is why it is fascinating to watch what happens to experiments like NPR, although even in that case it was only a partial success.