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That article -- and the lobbying group "study" it is based on have been pretty roundly condemned even by other journalism organizations e.g. https://www.cjr.org
by gipp 7y ago
That article -- and the lobbying group "study" it is based on have been pretty roundly condemned even by other journalism organizations e.g. https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/nyt-google-media.php https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/nyt-google-media.php
tl;dr the number is total fabrication
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoWhich only cements the claim that no one is making serious money off of proper news media.
- vinceguidry 7y agoHas the news industry's economics ever been truly separate from entertainment industry economics? Is the only reason news ever made money was because it offered people a novel form of entertainment? Did people ever buy news because it was news? Or was this decline inevitable as actual entertainment was always going to eventually be able to offer a better match for what people actually buy?