Jonathan D. Cohen and James Fallows in The Hill, May 14, 2024, argue that with the decline of the news industry, the U.S. losing one third of its newspapers along with 43,000 jobs in the last 20 years, the industry can be revived not with a bailout but with policy changes that treat journalism like infrastructure, “…journalism needs to be treated more like critical infrastructure. Highways, museums, libraries, courts, public-safety agencies, the military, advanced research centers and other vital institutions are not ordinarily expected to pay for themselves. They are aided by government and philanthropy because of their contributions as a political watchdog, civic connector and source for trusted information.”
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