It has always been disreputable, it has always been partisan, and it has often been wrong, sometimes deliberately so. The case for journalism is not that it is responsible, civic-minded or devoted to the public good. It is irreproachably responsible, admirably high-minded, and profoundly wrong. And if that were not true, we run into the uniquely ungovernable, indefinable thing that is journalism. The Future of Journalism Fund cannot give money to everyone: whoever runs it will therefore have to make choices.

Source: National Post January 28, 2017 00:11 UTC