Not to democracy, not to the industry, to you. Put a number on it. Most of us never do: the news that keeps us informed, the documentary that taught us something, the book that got us through a long winter. It’s all just there, until it is not. Drawing on new research into the value media creates in people’s everyday lives, Daniel Witte makes the case we rarely stop to make, and asks what we would really lose if we stopped supporting it.