The media landscape needs an overhaul.

Our news and reporting ecosystem needs to break up corporate monopolies, make media distribution algorithms more transparent, and more incentives for local news and independent journalists. But the market will never be the answer to fix it.

Did you know that the U.S. Postal service acted as a subsidized news delivery service in the 1800s America?

Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael – Our Broken Media System in the Era of Trump & How It Could Be Fixed w/ Victor Pickard Jan 18 2024 “We designed our public media from the get go to be relatively economically and politically weak. Those are structural problems that can be fixed. That’s not inevitable that that’s how our public media needs to look like. And that’s why in a lot of my work I float these more kind of ambitious even utopian plans for building out an entirely new public media system that I think ultimately is something we’re going to have to do if we’re going to have any sort of especially local journalism which the market will never support. There is no commercial future for a lot of the kinds of journalism that we actually need to have a healthy democratic society. So we’re going to have to find some kind of public model to do that but again one that I I would argue must be radically democratized, devolved down to the local level so that you have local ownership and control.” – Victor Pickard