Economics and changing technology will abolish not only abolish the wire services, but also newspapers, the cable news networks and talk radio.
Talk radio could migrate to something resembling Rush’s subscription site, but IMHO the way to understand the relation between journalism and talk radio is that journalists are sophists (we get the word “sophistry” from that ancient Greek form of slippery argumentation) and talk radio hosts are philosophers. Sophists claimed superior wisdom, journalists claim the same thing under the name of “objectivity.” Philosophers made a point of not claiming superior wisdom, but rather of being open to facts and logic, talk show hosts humbly accept (indeed glory in) the label of “conservative” rather than claiming that they are objective or wise.You can’t stop the expression of political opinion (the Democrats would be enthusiastic if they could do it). That being the case, talk show “philosophers” are inevitable, and it is also inevitable that sophists will be around for them to contend with.
The abolition has to come from competition not from the government. - outofsalt“If it bleeds, it leads” journalism cannot be conservative. As long as it is dominant in journalism, journalism will be “liberal.” The only competition it can have is, IMHO, talk radio “philosophers."
And it will all be controlled by our enemies.