Media Decline: Can Conservatives Fix?

The last few months have been rough for the journalism business. In a recent column for National Review, Becket Adams summarized the state of affairs:

The turmoil has journalists and the journalist-sympathetic looking for solutions. Unsurprisingly, some in the left-leaning profession avoid considering its faults — its biases, its declining credibility, etc. — and instead seek nonsensical fixes. In the New York Times, a journalism-school professor advocated making journalism school free. And in socialist publication Jacobin, a journalist called for massive federal subsidies to the profession. Adams well captured the problems with these proposed fixes: The former would cause a journalistic glut; the latter would only accelerate journalism’s ongoing credibility crisis.

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Jack Butler

Jack Butler is a former submissions editor at National Review.

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The last few months have been rough for the journalism business. In a recent column for National Review, Becket Adams summarized the state of affairs:

The turmoil has journalists and the journalist-sympathetic looking for solutions. Unsurprisingly, some in the left-leaning profession avoid considering its faults — its biases, its declining credibility, etc. — and instead seek nonsensical fixes. In the New York Times, a journalism-school professor advocated making journalism school free. And in socialist publication Jacobin, a journalist called for massive federal subsidies to the profession. Adams well captured the problems with these proposed fixes: The former would cause a journalistic glut; the latter would only accelerate journalism’s ongoing credibility crisis.