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It seems like most people are deeply cynical now, as in “all politicians are corrupt, anyway”, “journalists are corrupt/incompetent”, etc. Or, at least, that’s
by matt4077 8y ago
It seems like most people are deeply cynical now, as in “all politicians are corrupt, anyway”, “journalists are corrupt/incompetent”, etc.
Or, at least, that’s how they justify running every last publisher into the ground for reasons as spacious as “they are intruding on my rights by loading this unnesseray JS library”.
Once all medium-sized papers are gone (i. e. soon) it will probably get worse, then downhill from there, and over the cliff beyond that.
But at least we won’t have to deal with those distracting ads. Or only in the 30 minutes per day that the power is on.
- everdrive 8y agoSubscribe to a real, physical paper. Use the internet less. So many easy, practical solutions here.
- matt4077 8y agoI hate to break it to you, but physical magazines are somewhat linked to their internet equivalent. If your local papers’ website is offline, “I’ll just by buy the physical paper” might not actually be a workable strategy, for obvious reasons. In the best possible light, you may be saying that Peoples’ willingness to pay for content will increase as that content b comes rarer and rarer. In this scenario, you are already operating on the assumption that independent publishers will further dwindle, and I’m not convinced that whereever the swee spot will be, it will anywhere close to the vibrant media landscape a civil society needs for survival.
- everdrive 8y agoI suppose I'd better start writing, then.