Nichols, McChesney write about media ills

The Seattle Times, itself a casualty of media problems, reprints an essay from The Nation by John Nichols and Robert McChesney that lays the blame for newspaper problems not just on the Internet, but even more on media corporations themselves. Here's the nut graph: "In a nutshell, media corporations, after running journalism into the ground, have determined that news gathering and reporting are not profit-making propositions. So they're jumping ship."  They offer some solutions to the present situation, including government help, but see corporate changes as vital.