Taking Journalism Out of the Market: Long-Term Reforms for the News Media We Need
摘要
In this chapter I interrogate and historicise the political economic logics that drive commercial journalism, examine their harms to democratic society, and try to expand our political imaginary regarding what a post-commercial media system might look like. In doing so, I advocate for reforms that will seek to ultimately transform journalism and significantly lessen, or remove altogether, the commercial pressures and logics that decimate and degrade our news media at a structural level. Such a reformist project requires reorienting information and communication infrastructures in ways that align with serving human needs. It necessitates building out nonmarket alternatives by either creating entirely new infrastructures or by restructuring already-existing systems such as public broadcasting and the postal system.