Free Press founder Bob McChensey: “Only government can implement policies and subsidies to provide an institutional framework for quality journalism.”
[1] http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090406/nichols_mcchesney/

from:

The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers

By [2] John Nichols & [3] Robert W. McChesney

….So this is where we stand: much of local and state government, whole federal departments and agencies, American activities around the world, the world itself--vast areas of great public concern–are either neglected or on the verge of neglect. Politicians and administrators will work increasingly without independent scrutiny and without public accountability. We are entering historically uncharted territory in America, a country that from its founding has valued the press not merely as a watchdog but as the essential nurturer of an informed citizenry. The collapse of journalism and the democratic infrastructure it sustains is not a development that anyone, except perhaps corrupt politicians and the interests they serve, looks forward to. Such a crisis demands solutions equal to the task. So what are they?  Free Press proclaims the role of journalism is to serve government.  Do you agree?

“vast areas of great public concern–are either neglected or on the verge of neglect”