And/or use tax money to pay for good reporting, as has been standard practice in many jurisdictions for a long time.
e.g. China, Russia, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc.
The UK (BBC), Australia (ABC), New Zealand (Radio New Zealand)
Sweden (SVT, SR), Norway (NRK)..
If you live in the US then you may not be aware but your tax money does pay for a news service: http://www.voanews.com
Isn't that more propaganda meant for export?
The well regarded BBC World Service falls in the same category.
I wonder how well this would work for WSJ type stories. Some of their stories are generic newswires, but the juicy stuff is from knowing insiders and building relationships over the years. A generic reporting service will tell you that "Company A unveiled product B" but will unlikely report that "Company A gave up a bunch of liquidation preferences to get a $1 bln valuation".
Yes! Is anyone working on it? Single click microdonations from a dedicated bitcoin wallet? I am not a bitcoin nut but this sounds like the perfect application for it.