News media: As dailies decline, wonks start talking about a government news agency
One of the plaints that always accompanies inside-media discussions of newspapers’ failing health is, “Who will find a commercial model for large-scale newsgathering that works?” Which assumes that someone will because, well, someone has to. At a panel discussion hosted by the Twin Cities Media Alliance last fall, I suggested that the answer might be “no one,” and went on to speculate that it wasn’t hard to imagine a state-run news agency-cum-propaganda ministry taking the place of national and international news reportage.
Yesterday Michael Arrington at TechCrunch wrote that media policy wonks are starting to debate whether the government should get into the news business.
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