Right. I'm encouraged by the rise of nonprofit journalism, funded by sources other than advertising, which could ease some of the problems.

We have a high-quality nonprofit news website here in Alabama called Alabama Reflector, and I wanted to stand up and cheer when it was a Pulitzer finalist this year. More recognition like that will make it easier for those good sites to get the grants and other support they need to challenge the profit motives that are driving the media elsewhere.