> There needs to be publicly funded journalism - who else is going to report on stories that would threaten the status quo of rich & powerful? The way to enabl

> There needs to be publicly funded journalism - who else is going to report on stories that would threaten the status quo of rich & powerful? The way to enable stories that threaten the status quo of the rich and powerful is to enforce freedom of speech for everyone, so anyone who is being screwed by the rich and powerful can say so, publicly, and not get canceled. "Publicly funded journalism" does nothing of the kind, because the funding of "publicly funded journalism" comes from...the rich and powerful. Either through the government (who do you think runs the government? certainly not the poor and powerless) or through "nonprofit" organizations that can't survive, let alone pay the costs of journalism, without donations from the rich and powerful.