Government funding is being proposed for corporate media. This will work in tandem with government censorship to muzzle everyone else (as the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals made clear in the case of Missouri v Biden, about to be argued at the U.S. Supreme Court). This dramatic and deplorable proposal is necessary because, as anyone who is paying attention knows, corporate media is a source of non-stop lies on virtually any issue of national importance.

Take-aways from this article:

Establishment media companies are facing a decline in their dominance due to competition from decentralized media.
Some media figures have used recent layoffs at news companies to claim the industry is facing a crisis.
In the U.S., these efforts have coalesced around the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), which would funnel money from Big Tech to the media industry, while excluding independent competitors.
Establishment media companies already receive billions of dollars in subsidies from tech companies and governments around the world, but industry lobbyists still claim the bill is needed to save the industry.
The bill has attracted the support of the censorship industry, which presents the establishment media as a bulwark against alleged mis- and dis-information.