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MiniMediaGuy » Blog Archive » Nonprofit journalism no panacea for nation of digital idiots; still, see leads to grant $$$ below.:

"That’s why I want to keep journalism in the marketplace, which provides some
immediate feedback as to whether or not the audience is consuming the knowledge.
To “preserve” journalism in a foundation setting would be to consign it to
irrelevancy. It would not learn the skill of engaging with its time-strapped,
short-attention-span audience. Journalism would become the tree that fell in the
forest but went unheard."

Click on the link, read the whole article. Those who think that journalism can't survive in the market don't understand that it can't survive without a market.