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Your choice of journalism as an example is unsettling. If the New York Times goes out of business, there is no guarantee that another news publisher will break
by smadge 8y ago
Your choice of journalism as an example is unsettling. If the New York Times goes out of business, there is no guarantee that another news publisher will break the same stories. Some things will just not be investigated anymore and some important stories will just not be told.
- bena 8y agoBut doesn't that hold true regardless? The presence of the New York Times means there are certain stories not being investigated or told. And we aren't even fully aware. We have no idea if those stories would be of more worth to us or not.
- smadge 8y agoCan you elaborate more? I was working with the model that more investigative journalism is better, but you seem to be suggesting that the presence of some news outlets inhibits others.
- bena 8y agoJust in a basic sense. The NYT employs X people, sells to Y people, etc. Those are people who won't be employed by someone else, people who won't buy another paper. There's a sort of critical mass of "news" that can be made. We can't all be investigative journalists. So whatever that would be here instead of the NYT might be different, it might not be worse. It could be just as good, just different. Of course, it could be worse. It could be better. We can't know.