Will Coronavirus Kill Off the News Business Just When America Realized We Actually Need It?

The California Journalism Preservation Act would require large online platforms to pay a “journalism usage fee” for linking to news sites.

Hedge funds and media conglomerates would benefit most from the CJPA, which sets up a perverse incentive to create yet more clickbait.

To those in favor of federal regulators imposing new fees on broadband subscribers, Free Press has a simple message: Count us out.