pretty terrible analogy. there's no point at which you putting M&Ms on your lawn can be self-sustaining. Both professional journalism and fish populations CAN

pretty terrible analogy. there's no point at which you putting M&Ms on your lawn can be self-sustaining. Both professional journalism and fish populations CAN be self-sustaining (from the perspective of individual consumers). Also, even if your analogy did make sense, the end result would be no more M&Ms (aka no more professional journalism). That's the outcome we're trying to avoid.