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"Free" is an edge case that creates approximately unlimited demand. (See also: health care.) Put a price on it and the demand might change so as to show there isn't really much of one. Sure, they had to adapt. Few to no subsidies, so they did. It's a bit misleading to identify "artists" as...

If the personnel of three more HQs are almost entirely present anyways in the one HQ because the same amount of work has to be done, then we follow an illusion and lose opportunities (placement slots) to develop commanders and senior staff. Our problem is that we can rarely do "lean HQ".

Sure there is. Media websites host ads just like everyone else. The more people that follow links to their websites, the more ad views they get. Now, if you mean "the way to monetize it sufficiently to sustain them in the way they are accustomed to structuring and conducting themselves is not...

"not dissimilar" is a gaping hole. What does it imply? They have to remain the same size? None can fail? They can't change organization or staffing to improve efficiency? They can't change programming to become more focused on delivering concise summaries of facts and figures? They are...

To judge by what comes out of politicians' mouths, ignorance about these kinds of nuances is common and in many cases not deliberate. Correlation is not causation, and causes are not exclusive. There can be multiple causes; acetaminophen could be one. The question has been raised and ought to...

Sure, if the Liberals coming up with the idea of subsidizing media to encourage media to protect the hand that feeds them fits the subject.

Win a bunch of election bets?

I doubt I could adequately characterize it without you contradicting me. To avoid that, and to clarify the challenge you're claiming no one could meet, it would help if you laid it all down again, however it evolved over the past few rounds. If you're going to disqualify answers, it's best...

For clarity, restate your amended guidelines - carefully, since you had to change them - and commit to whatever you lay down this time - no more changes after you restate them.

Some claim to be making hundreds of thousands (US); many who are in the business claim to be making more than they were paid as employees. People using it as a blog replacement don't make those claims.

Regarding news specifically, they've mostly stopped offering information of any importance. I occasionally watch what others are viewing. A typical segment goes like this: 15 seconds to introduce the issue / scandal the rest of the segment interviewing inarticulate just-some-guys for their...

They move to Substack with all the opinion writers and SMEs worth heeding, where they aren't told by owners and editors and pressured by newsroom peers how to salt and slant their stories.

The old news delivery models are mostly obsolete, and have been for a couple of decades. You may want to preserve the antiquated forms and practices; I don't. Just as traditional Canadian O&G-focused energy companies will eventually have to adapt to new "energy business" practices, so does the...

But of course that's unproven, and difficult to assert unless you again move the goalposts to "all Canadian news media of such-and-such a size and such-and-such a reputation extant at such-and-such a date". A brutal round of creative destruction usually leaves some participants standing.

The issue stands at correlation-is-not-causation. People commonly make the leap between (on many different issues) without properly understanding the distinction. Ignorance or incomplete misunderstanding isn't an absolute lie. Assertions to the contrary will for their own part look pretty...

Some people fondly "remember" the time when peasants were forbidden weapons, or certain classes of weapons. Otherwise, they were hard to pillage.

"I'm responding to you, but this is an open question for anyone who doesn't like the media subsides. What would you do instead?" after which "If your task is to ensure Canadian media can survive without subsidies, what do you do instead?" is moving the goalposts.

The media do a shit job of fact-checking and have no integrity worth mentioning: selective quotations omitting meaningful context are habitual. Many have become mere stenographers for political operatives. The ideal to be preserved doesn't exist, so there's nothing to be preserved.

"Build a better mousetrap". No-one has satisfactorily explained why taxpayers should subsidize poor offerings. No-one has satisfactorily explained why media deserve protections not offered to brick-and-mortar stores facing online competition. Demand, supply, and methods of payment have all...

Very few things are. A person deviating from well-reasoned and empirically-confirmed doctrine ought to be able to state sound reasons concisely. I didn't object to trade deals, the point of which is mostly to remove government-imposed impediments. Your assumption that I'm less- or...