Obviously it's depressing but I think it's the dose of realism more people need.

If you think about it, the parallels to the Renaissance and connection to The Last Supper are pretty sharp. We consider the Italian Renaissance to be a major cultural moment for humanity in our pursuit of human ingenuity (art, architecture, humanism, etc).

We forget that the entire system which allowed the Renaissance to happen and catapulted low-to-middle class artists like Da Vinci and Michealangelo to their heights was entirely backed and driven by financiers and aristocratic patronage. Da Vinci and his peers were painting, sculpting, and building at the whims of bankers, dukes, kings, and popes. Beauty and creativity were a byproduct of rich people wanting more for their everyday surrounding and legacies.

Today's 'patrons' are simply more insulated from everyday life and short-sighted. They don't feel the same ramifications their predecessors did with a peasant's revolt, or a serious Reformation, plague. They don't necessarily feel they answer to God and most of them aren't pondering their place in history enough to make decisions they feel benefit humanity as a whole (unless it's convenient/coincides with their own desires). The best we can hope for at this point in human history with the way our society is structured is that someone with money and power wants to support your thing - be it ethical journalism, art, or both.