No, what I’m suggesting is that by helping out the newspaper industry, you’ll be helping save journalism — and thus helping out Craigslist’s users, who deserve to be kept well informed by a viable news media. For while newsPAPERS may be slowly fading from the scene, the type of journalism that is produced by newspaper companies is still sorely needed. The ability of the Fourth Estate to execute its watchdog role over government and business is being badly eroded by the thousands of newspaper journalists walking out the door in the last couple years, and continuing to do so at an alarming rate.
