The First Amendment guarantees a free press.
If these communist propagandists are so in love with the job of being “journalists” let them continue working...for free!
Yep the papers are in trouble. But, haven’t there been continual changes in the news and media business since at least the end of World War II? For example, most cities used to have morning papers and an afternoon paper. I can remember in the ‘50s and ‘60s a lot of afternoon papers went out of business. Magazines such as Life, Look, and the Saturday Evening Post lost readership and went out of business.
Didn’t New York used to have six or more daily papers, but many went under after a newspaper strike in the ‘60s?
Newspapers and the media in general have gone through changes in the past, and will have to adapt today if they are going to survive. Some of what they face they brought on themselves. Some of it is just new technology taking us to new places. Should we have given a subsidy to all those afternoon newspapers that went out of business years ago? Should we have subdidized Look Magazine?
And what should we do with young people today, who would rather watch Jon Stewart’s news satires than read an actual newspaper?