Victor Pickard, Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania, in a new paper that breaks down the failures of a media market that values profit over the public good:

“Capitalism incentivizes the degradation of news media — from disinvesting in local journalism to capturing our attention and extracting personal data to devaluing and casualizing news workers’ conditions.”

He’s not wrong, but this is a daunting ask. Accomplishing what he’s proposing will require drastic mindset shifts and political regime change here in the United States.