If this is true, it’s depressingly humorous:

The newspaper industry is suffering "market failure" and the government will need to help preserve serious journalism essential to democracy, an influential US congressman said Wednesday. [what the hell is serious journalism?]

It gets even more depressing…

"Eventually, government is going to have to be responsible to help resolve these issues and our whole society depends very much on reaching some resolution of the problem."

Truth Czar.