[Arguendo]

Like anyone who gets income from doing anything, they circulate money, which contributes to the economy.

I'm not sure circulating money by itself is good for the economy (Keynes may disagree), but anyone who provides a service people want, including artists and journalists, is contributing something to the economy.

[JasonC]

Journalists aren't providing a service that people want. They are stealing past investors money to write fish-wrap hymns to their messiah, one lie after another, the same one over and over everywhere, 24/7, year in and year out. Then they don't understand why their papers go bankrupt.