Journalism is best when it's used as a weapon against both political sides It would then be convenient for someone to manufacture two opposing puppet causes an

Journalism is best when it's used as a weapon against both political sides It would then be convenient for someone to manufacture two opposing puppet causes and run the public through a tight course of fake debate and spectacle, while real issues are left ignored. You can already see how front-page news have very little effect on people's lives; death of a celebrity, or a lucky pet being found at last, etc. News is dead because news is a commercial product, made, packaged and sold by the owners of the medium. And with its death, government will loose its biggest proponent. For the longest time, the papers and broadcast mediums "of record" have been manufacturing "national unity" and marching people behind the state; it's thanks to broadcast and print news that most nations of this world have created their sense of identity. Once this is gone, people will seek their ideological own and fellow like-minded people across geopolitical boundaries, and the taxing state will have to justify its continued funding a little harder.