Back in the day, citizens in a free republic benefitted most from when the news was most objective.
Subjects in a dictatorship don’t need an objective press. In fact, in such an “our democracy” (actually, totalitarian oligarchy), an objective press is not wanted at all by the oligarchy, or their Democratic party minions.
The flip side of the coin is this: When the news ceases to be objective, or even of trying to be objective, there’s absolutely no reason to keep patronizing it and reading or watching it, or listening to it in the case of NPR. Why would anyone want to buy a Washington Post or New York Times newspaper since they are not even pretending to be objective any longer, let alone actually being objective?
As it is, the people who subscribe to those rags now would not have it any other way. They stopped believing in objectivity a while ago and want to exist in an echo chamber of their pretensions, it's what they're paying for!
Which makes the twitter buyout more important - now that the market for real news has been abandoned, maybe twitter under Musk can help supply it. can't be any worse.