We really have dismantled our journalism in favor of sweatshop labor...

I would guess based on the post you made the other day about all the quality made good that you like to buy that you would agree with me that we have dismantled a lot of industries in favor of sweatshop labor. Unfortunately, journalism is the one industry that's supposed to protect us from all the other ones when it's working properly (via keeping us informed with free information). The way journalism has been undermined in the last decade or so is a crying shame. Free press means more than just being able to say whatever you like without going to jail. The real question is how to fix it? As long as the click for pay model is in effect, I don't think that anything is going to improve. Imagine in the 80's thinking that you could go to the newsstand and grab a copy of the Times and be pissed off that the attendant at the kiosk wanted you to pay him for it. Or better yet, be pissed off that you have to pay for home delivery each and every day. We don't even have to go to the goddam curb any more to grab our paper off the lawn, and we want the shit free? Doesn't make sense.