The Left's Worst Idea (This Week)

As you may know, the mainstream media is going through massive layoffs, to which a paraphrase of the great Oscar Wilde line comes to mind—one has to have a heart of stone not to laugh at massive media layoffs, given the increasing partisan mendacity and advancing mediocrity of the mainstream media.

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So guess what is proposed to reverse this dire situation? Behold The Jacobin (which is certainly an appropriate name for the publication):

US Media Is Collapsing. Here’s How to Save It.

Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need three things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually industry transformation into a publicly funded system.

Ed Morrissey

That's a terrible idea. Government-funded media turns into government-serving media very quickly. That is the incentive it will set, and it's the incentive that will dominate. We don't need government-owned or even government-approved media, because the real value of media in a free society is its adversarial position to government and power by a focus on objective truth. 

In reality, we have government approved media already. And people aren't buying it any more. 

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