A bit (?) of an omission in this article is any mention of the travails of Post Media. This is a great (i .e. bad) example of a leveraged buyout that makes money for the hedge fund while destroying the company. Should there be laws to ban this type of dysfunctional behavour or does business have a license to do whatever?

The crisis is in small communities without a local paper. There is no viable solution via government subsidy. It is not a solution to create a government subsidized news media monopoly in a local market.

Fake news is another problem. It has always existed; partisans 'know' evil when they see it! We have to have faith that people will eventually understand the false equivalency of science = hoax. Perhaps the comments on this article will provide some hope that this is possible! ; )