Specifically, about newspapers:
http://www.poynter.org/2016/john-oliver-the-media-is-a-food-chain-which-would-fall-apart-without-local-newspapers/425319/
To sum up: local newspapers and journalists are the ones who research the stories you click on in your Facebook / Twitter / whatever newsfeed.
We have an obligation to journalists, because they have an obligation to us. To, specifically, investigate and report on what's happening at a local, and sometimes, national level. To let us know about corruption, about local events and happenings, and how they affect us.
It's important to pay for your news. And it starts, as Mr. Oliver pointed out, at your local newspaper.
Yeah, we're broke, and we bought a half-year subscription. $100. Invest in investigators, local news, and yeah, nothing is free. That coffee you buy every day; that subscription to a dating site; those loot crates or whatever you get every month: those are fun, yes. Expensive, yes. But necessary?
Think about it. $200 a year, for the cornerstone of what keeps a local democracy clean and corruption-(almost)-free: information and reporting.
So pay those watchdogs in your state house.
Signing out,
-Mgmt.
