Season 1 told the 250-year history of the U.S. Postal Service, but we weren't really talking about mail. We were talking about how ordinary people build public institutions, and how power tries to take them back. Season 2 is about journalism. The free press and the postal service grew up together. In 1792, the Post Office Act subsidized newspaper delivery at rates way below cost. Not because it was profitable. Because democracy requires informed citizens. That subsidy created an explosion of diverse media: abolitionist papers, labor papers, Black newspapers, immigrant language papers, alt-weeklies, news that served communities, not shareholders. What We'll Cover: How news distribution was treated as democracy infrastructure for 200 years The shift to the 24-hour news cycle and clickbait economics Corporate consolidation and the death of local journalism How we're told there's "no business model" for news, when we had one for two centuries The pattern: defund public infrastructure, let it fail, claim it's obsolete, privatize what's left We subsidized news distribution as public infrastructure. Then we stopped, called it "letting the free market work," and now journalism serves shareholders instead of citizens. Just like Season 1 showed with the postal service, the history isn't just loss, it's also resistance. Muckrakers, underground papers during McCarthyism, the alternative press movement, community radio. Ordinary people fighting to keep news serving communities instead of profits. Season 2 will show how we built a free press, how it's been contested and controlled throughout history, and what it would take to make it serve democracy again. The fight over who controls information? That's never been more urgent than right now.   Season 2 coming: Spring of 2026