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>newspaper -> hacker news, google news Um, what? Google News doesn't do reporting, it aggregates newspaper content. If the traditional media outlets die, there
by superuser2 11y ago
>newspaper -> hacker news, google news
Um, what? Google News doesn't do reporting, it aggregates newspaper content. If the traditional media outlets die, there will be no content left for Google News to aggregate. Unless you are referring the part of the newspaper industry which actually puts ink on dead trees, which is pretty small compared to the newsrooms.
People write posts that go on HN to promote themselves and their business interests. Nothing wrong with a little of that, but it isn't a substitute for journalism.
- undersuit 11y agoNewspapers aggregate news as well. The point is you buy the newspaper for all or most of the content or you visit Google News or Hacker News. They are portals. >it isn't a substitute for journalism. No true journalist would ever impinge their profession by writing for such trash as a blog.
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- superuser2 11y agoI am using "newspaper" in the sense of "organization which pays reporters and editors to produce a textual representation of the news of the day." So perhaps this is semantics. But Google News does not do that. Google News is sort of similar to the business unit of a newspaper which takes finished copy in digital form from the newsroom and actually delivers dead trees to people's doors. Of course the internet should (and will) kill that entirely. Journalism is a professional craft. Writing about current events for free because you are passionate about some issue, or for a salary because your benefactor has a vested interest in some issue, etc. is not journalism. Your income has to flow from the fact that people want the news, and you/your bosses/your editors have to be properly incentivized to actually report the news.