What about cities and counties funding newspapers? The author thinks that there&#x27;s at least some good DC reporting from national papers and non-profit media, but that what suffers are the local papers.<p>Funding at the local level could be provided by ballot initiatives that pull money directly from taxes instead of the general budget. That way local politicians can&#x27;t influence the news too much.<p>People are pretty passionate about funding libraries. I could see the same people accepting newspaper taxes.