Topic: We should subsidize journalism

Argument: subsidizing journalism could cause them to not report only what the government (or whoever is paying the bill) will allow them to.

Argument: subsidizing journalism could raise questions about bias and editorial independence.

Argument: Subsidizing journalism decreases the need for profit seeking and competition because the state will pay for most of the costs.

Argument: subsidizing journalism helps to lower the socioeconomic barriers to publishing press and allows a wider range of views and people to be respresented in the press

Argument: Subsidizing journalism increases competition, which allows for more innovation and diversity of choices.

Argument: Subsidizing journalism increases journalist pay, allowing for better journalism.

Argument: Subsidizing journalism is a dangerous slope to government interference in the press.

Argument: subsidizing journalism is unfair. you're basically paying someone to spread your own beliefs.

Argument: subsidizing journalism lowers the barrier to entry and can allow more fake news and junk reporting to proliferate so to speak

Argument: Subsidizing journalism makes it impossible to criticize the government in fear of losing a subsidy.

Argument: subsidizing journalism may inadvertently have the effect of lowering its worth, since it would have a guaranteed revenue threshold no matter the quality of content.

Argument: Subsidizing journalism means more resources at the disposal of journalists / news media companies. More resources leads to better-quality journalism overall.

Argument: subsidizing journalism might allow companies to pay for opinions, thus introducing biases in reporting.

Argument: subsidizing journalism only succeeds in propping up weak and poorly run organizations which otherwise would soon fail

Argument: subsidizing journalism opens up the door to bias in the media.

Argument: subsidizing journalism puts the news into the control of government entities that can prevent truth in reporting to the government's own agenda and imposed beliefs.

Argument: Subsidizing journalism will be expensive for the government, the money should be used to fulfill more existential needs like housing and food instead.

Argument: Subsidizing journalism will embed current organizations and prevent start ups who don't have access to the same subsidies from rising up.

Argument: Subsidizing journalism will enable higher salaries be paid to journalists and ensure we keep good, talented newspeople reporting the news.

Argument: Subsidizing journalism will increase journalist's job stability, which will encourage high quality college students to become journalists (currently the are discouraged by low wages and few job openings).

Argument: subsidizing journalism will lead to corruption, i.e. print the story the way i told you to or your funding is cut.

Argument: Subsidizing journalism will lead to legislators threatening news agencies with taking their funding away if they report controversial content.

Argument: subsidizing journalism will limit journalists right of freedom of speech and they won't be able to cover the stories we need