Easy question really; the press is no longer a check on our government, it’s largely there to pump out propaganda and studiously ignore anything that threatens the power of the elites classes.
I get this, and there are a lot of places pumping out low quality garbage that they just don’t care about.
That being said, staying alive as a news business in 2024 seems extremely difficult. Google + Facebook have fucked around with your business model for a decade, stealing clicks away and aggregating titles and pages (like with AMP). And now AI’s going to fuck everything up, and could fundamentally change how we receive our information.
I do empathize with people trying to report on what’s occurring in the world having to deal with all these larger struggles impacting their occupation.
Easy question really; the press is no longer a check on our government, it’s largely there to pump out propaganda and studiously ignore anything that threatens the power of the elites classes.
I get this, and there are a lot of places pumping out low quality garbage that they just don’t care about.
That being said, staying alive as a news business in 2024 seems extremely difficult. Google + Facebook have fucked around with your business model for a decade, stealing clicks away and aggregating titles and pages (like with AMP). And now AI’s going to fuck everything up, and could fundamentally change how we receive our information.
I do empathize with people trying to report on what’s occurring in the world having to deal with all these larger struggles impacting their occupation.