Andras, I think your piece is very thought-provoking and at least it offers some dialogue and a starting point for conversation that is needed. There has to be a some conversation to eventually bring about some type of alternative. I think the payment sources/streams/ideas are viable to some degree and who knows they may work.

Dear Andras Szanto - Are you out of your freaking mind? You want Arts dollars to go to JOURNALISTS? Listen to me, you useless, outmoded relic - the free market has CHOSEN and it has chosen to call your so-called work OBSOLETE by abandoning print media. So SAYONARA, sucker. You want Arts dollars? Here's a radical idea: Try CREATING something for a change, rather than coercing actual creative people to engage in some empty "dialogue" with you (a useless, parasitical CRITIC) as a pretext for the destruction of their work. Make some ART if you want art dollars. Otherwise, go look for temp work, you zero.