Lots of people won't pay for journalism anymore. You'd have a hard time convincing me (or most other people on here) that journalism is no longer important.
This does not mean that journalism isn't valuable enough to some people. It just means that the market for journalism shrank.
High-quality, investigative journalism is an essential institution for a functioning democracy, yet it's not valued by the people it is most important to: average citizens.
https://theworld.org/stories/2024/08/27/a-rise-in-water-rela...