Media is a low-margin business, that historically was always affiliated with government. I agree with you - it should be a government problem.
With various self-publishing media emerged recently it became easier to spread your unbiased opinions.
However, I don’t read American press, so not quite familiar with the state of media business in the country.
I subscribe to the economist and the ken (the great source covering VC news in SEA and India). I want to reward journalist for high-quality material. They don’t have a fremium reading and the subscription is quite high indeed.
As for Spotify-like business model, I bet Medium has something in their roadmap. Also, out of States there multiple interesting products that try to to pay-once-read-all business-model: Yandex Zen in Russia and SmartNews in Japan.
However, I don’t read American press, so not quite familiar with the state of media business in the country. I subscribe to the economist and the ken (the great source covering VC news in SEA and India). I want to reward journalist for high-quality material. They don’t have a fremium reading and the subscription is quite high indeed.
As for Spotify-like business model, I bet Medium has something in their roadmap. Also, out of States there multiple interesting products that try to to pay-once-read-all business-model: Yandex Zen in Russia and SmartNews in Japan.