Putting journalism cart before advertising horse

[Commentary] Journalists don't like advertising. It is both the corrupting influence and the hard taskmaster, to which they always dream of being free. But save for a few rare instances where information is so valuable or beloved that customers will pay for it, advertising is the only thing that has ever paid the news bill. We don't need journalists solving the problem of news. We need people with far more cunning and inventive commercial minds. But there are few of those.