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Everybody's talking about how we're going to pay for good content. How will newspapers operate in the future? We don't need to pay for content. The world is fu
by DanielBMarkham 8y ago
Everybody's talking about how we're going to pay for good content. How will newspapers operate in the future?
We don't need to pay for content. The world is full of people who will write for nothing more than getting their name out there. What we need are good editors. The news media are firing the very people who could get them out of this mess they ended up in.
- IronWolve 8y agoI pay for good content, lots of writers/producers use crowdfunding for a paycheck. Papers like NYTimes have slid down to clickbait titles and Buzzfeed type articles to get readers. The war for media control is corporate vs independent.
- DanielBMarkham 8y agoI disagree. We've had independents, corporations, and mixed-mode content creation and delivery for many, many decades. What we used to have that we don't have any more is a forced-delay, quality-control, gatekeeping function. This was fulfilled by the slowness of manufacturing printed content and good editors. Turns out that this is a place where cutting out the middleman, the wisdom of crowds, and automation worked against our best interests.