I agree this view: "... journalism's first loyalty is to the citizenry and that journalists are thus obliged to tell the truth and must serve as an independent

I agree this view: "... journalism's first loyalty is to the citizenry and that journalists are thus obliged to tell the truth and must serve as an independent monitor of powerful individuals and institutions within society." Once upon a time we had a weekly newspaper in Sweden that did this. Watched the powers that be and reported on them. Government, corporations, individuals that wield power was exposed/illuminated for me to draw my own conclusions. And it didn't matter what color/team that happened to rule the government. Sadly they hired on of the top political pundits (that I 80% of times don't agree with) as editor-in-chief and my trust in their mission disappeared along with my (too cheap) subscription fee. I guess this is harder for you Americans to digest with your division (and we are heading your way as well) but this is journalism worth paying for and maybe ai actually is the solution here, not as text producer but as one source for the actual human journalist. A source that is good at extracting structured subset of (verifiable) information out of a large corpus. Eg how has this individual politician voted during his/her career.