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>Great work. Next up, you can resolve how to save the news media industry in the absence of ad revenue for the publishers. I can't speak for the parent poster,

>Great work. Next up, you can resolve how to save the news media industry in the absence of ad revenue for the publishers. I can't speak for the parent poster, but personally I don't want it saved. I stopped reading professional news years ago. All published for-profit news has an agenda. Even if the journalist doesn't have one, it can be inserted by the editor picking and choosing which stories to run. It's hit rock bottom levels. In most countries, if you ask the locals, they can tell you which news outlets are aligned with which parties, and which newspapers publish for which prominent businesses. For my mileage, I find places like hacker news much better sources of news. This place does a great job of aggregating the kind of high quality content that only pops up when a person /truly cares/ about a subject. You can't get that kind of quality out of someone who works 9-5 making news every day. From my perspective, the traditional news industry gets a big fat shrug. If they can't keep themselves alive, I won't shed a tear.

Matt3o12_ 11y ago
Even on hacker news, there are often for profit news sites that are very interesting. If you look outside the tech bubble (or scientific bubble), there will be very few who report on what is going on in the world. And those who do either have extreme views (many of them support the tea party or occupy wallstreat) or have very low writing and research skills Politics are completely different from tech news because in order to write about them, you need to do lots of research. If you want to write why languge A outperforms language B after your extensive benchmarking that took you hours, you only need to summarize it. Your paid job most likely required you to do this kind of research anyways and summarizing it is the smallest part (and not important for your employee). If you write about economics or politics, research is the crucial part and the sole reason for your article (at least most of the time). There are very few people who can afford to do that kind of research for free and donations won't work in the long term. Sure there is a bias and agenda in more traditional news articles, but you can choose which one to read and different news companies have different biases and agendas.
- a_imho 11y ago
  >Politics are completely different from tech news because in order to write about them, you need to do lots of research. Disagree. I don't think tech news are any quality. Also, we have issues like encryption which can be regarded as a mix, but like FBI vs Apple is more of a politics issue imho, yet reporters can't even get the basic terminology right.

Matt3o12_ 11y ago

Even on hacker news, there are often for profit news sites that are very interesting. If you look outside the tech bubble (or scientific bubble), there will be very few who report on what is going on in the world. And those who do either have extreme views (many of them support the tea party or occupy wallstreat) or have very low writing and research skills Politics are completely different from tech news because in order to write about them, you need to do lots of research. If you want to write why languge A outperforms language B after your extensive benchmarking that took you hours, you only need to summarize it. Your paid job most likely required you to do this kind of research anyways and summarizing it is the smallest part (and not important for your employee). If you write about economics or politics, research is the crucial part and the sole reason for your article (at least most of the time). There are very few people who can afford to do that kind of research for free and donations won't work in the long term. Sure there is a bias and agenda in more traditional news articles, but you can choose which one to read and different news companies have different biases and agendas.

a_imho 11y ago
>Politics are completely different from tech news because in order to write about them, you need to do lots of research. Disagree. I don't think tech news are any quality. Also, we have issues like encryption which can be regarded as a mix, but like FBI vs Apple is more of a politics issue imho, yet reporters can't even get the basic terminology right.