This week, the World Meteorological Association warned of the danger that the earth could well temporarily surpass a notable – and dangerous – average temperature threshold at some point over the next several years.

Given all of the emphasis that has rightly been placed on needs for physical infrastructural overhaul in recent years, I still believe it will be important to consider informational infrastructure, too.

In April 2010, then-Senator Carl Levin admonished Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein that a free market “needs a cop on the beat, and it’s got to get back on Wall Street.”

As media outlets have proliferated to reach what appears to have been a critical mass several years ago, a sort of cartelization almost no one predicted seems to have taken place whereby even nonprofit news outlets seem to have abdicated part of their traditional roles.

If a main lesson of the women’s movement has been that organizational abuses, which arguably occur where there is maximum brawn and minimum accountability, appear disproportionately in publicly-traded journalism corporations, I continue to believe these entities may need additional attention given the degree to which our governments rely on and are influenced them.

Based on experience in media, while there is certainly a lot I do not know, I wonder whether journalism organizations should be insulated from stock market trading and whether the fact that they are not may be more than just a problem, but the problem.

(Reposted from LinkedIn)