You are a great writer. However, I think the media is already being propped up by the oligarchs in the background pulling all the strings. I don't even think it *matters* anymore if CNN ever turns a profit. The whole purpose of CNN or the Washington Post is to disseminate propaganda. That itself has value to the people willing to finance it.

The mainstream media is *not* subject to the forces of free market capitalism. It's at best a tool of some oligarchs that stand to profit both financia…