[joe_the_user]

I think this article ultimately give devastating critique of that kind of thinking: ... the news business, supported for a hundred years by advertising, whose core skill has been selling advertising, believes it must right away, this second, re-create itself with a new business model where advertising is just the cream on top and where it’s the consumer who pays the true cost of newsgathering.

[idm]

I definitely agree - and really, I want my statement to be falsified, since it will be so much worse for it to be confirmed.