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> the news media really only seems to report anecdotal stuff with a random smattering of actual facts thrown in without any context There just isn't much mone
by trendia 9y ago
> the news media really only seems to report anecdotal stuff with a random smattering of actual facts thrown in without any context
There just isn't much money in journalism to do in depth work, which results in poor quality articles, which reduces people's willingness to pay for it.
It's a downward cycle of despair.
- curtis 9y agoI subscribed to the print version of Newsweek for something like 20 years, and at least in the 80s and 90s it was a pretty decent source of information even if it was somewhat format limited (think of it as the 168 hour news cycle rather than the 24 hours news cycle). But I can't justify that kind of subscription anymore, because I don't read a single source when reading online, I read from a huge variety of sources. I've reached the point where I would be willing to pay for good online stuff, but I am not going to do it by paying for a bunch of subscriptions on a whole bunch of different sites. But there really isn't any other alternative it seems like. It seems to me like there ought to be some sort of business opportunity here.