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They cannot. How can wagon wheel makers live in the age of the car? Their business model is defunct. We outsourced our opinions and fact-finding to journalists
by ageofwant 9y ago
They cannot. How can wagon wheel makers live in the age of the car? Their business model is defunct.
We outsourced our opinions and fact-finding to journalists for a few hundred years. Now that time has past. Journalists themselves have destroyed their own industry by producing a poor quality product. Maybe in future journalists will re-invent themselves as purveyors of pure factual reporting, and those that care about that kind of thing will pay for it. But it is a niche market. Democracy, decency, enlightenment and society will suffer of course. But those things were never guaranteed with any kind of real safeguards.
- jorvi 9y agoThere's more to the world than the US. The press in, for example, The Netherlands and Finland might be opinionated but they're mostly factual and high quality.
- marcus_holmes 9y agoI wonder if the clickbait and fake news is an English-language phenomenon, because of the huge potential global market for English-language articles?
- tertius 9y ago> Maybe in future journalists will re-invent themselves as purveyors of pure factual reporting If you think this was ever the case, rose colored glasses are in effect.