[pdpi]

"Trash" journalism pays for the deep investigative stuff, though.

[cafard]

Advertisement have always paid for most of journalism. If the equivalent of classified ads magically vanished from the internet, there would be a rebirth of small newspapers, and the big ones would become much healthier.

[pdpi]

Right, but ads only pay for journalism insofar as newspapers sell, and papers only sell insofar as readers are interested in buying.

[moron4hire]

With the number of newspapers closing every year, apparently trash journalism doesn't even pay for itself.