Some of us have been hoping that people’s concern about democracy would cause them, eventually, to rally to the cause of supporting the beleaguered news industry. The press, or the media, or whatever you want to call it, has been getting hit from a lot of directions lately — from market forces related to Internet economics, from the blossoming corpse-flower of the fake-fact industry (also Internet-related) and from a president-elect who is hostile not only to the ordinary understanding of what a fact is, but also to the institution of the press, specifically. And throw in that this person will soon be moving into the White House and will have all the levers of government power at his little fingertips. You know, the ones that he so nimbly tweets provocative nonsense with.