John Lee wrote
...when we get to the point of having to debate with the readers, you know something is wrong.
That may be.
"Imagine a world in which every person has free access to the sum of all human knowledge."
That is currently what we are using, successfully, to raise funds.
I think all of us here would want to qualify that in some way. The proposition as stated is not utopian.
But there is nothing there about 'and not have their assumptions questioned'. It distances WP, certainly, from kinds of journalism based on the readership not having their assumptions questioned.
I just mention this, as a comment on the idea that WP is driven by having a readership, and should have a sort of 'circulation manager' function based on targeting and retaining the readership. While the servers are strained by the numbers of folk wanting to read WP, this is not a live issue, I think. For the longer term, yes. I have already given an alternate slant on it, in another post.
Charles