It has been decimated but not so much by pirates, but more so by the publishers themselves creating unbearable experiences, starting to give away everything cre

It has been decimated but not so much by pirates, but more so by the publishers themselves creating unbearable experiences, starting to give away everything creating a certain expectation (and now trying to reverse but running into the expectations they created), by the publishers being complacent and reactionary, by social media, by social media companies abusing their network effects, by "free" 24/7 news channels eating the newspaper's cake while at the same time discrediting the entire profession with their more-often-than-not sensationalist low quality reporting, by entrepreneurs backing news site "ventures" which then blasted and keep blasting everybody with low quality "free" clickbait, by publishers starting to imitate those low quality channels and sites (and their "free as in data hoarding" unsustainable models), predatory/hostile takeovers of local newspapers by "big media" and the associated "consolidating" of writers staff with adverse effects on quality, by "stakeholders" shifting from a "I am OK with only a so-so profit; this stuff is important" attitude to a full blown "we need to maximize profits at all costs", and the list goes on. I used to read the German Spiegel weekly, first the issues my dad bought, then later as I grew older buying their magazine. I stopped buying it years back, as it stopped being worth it, as the quality of the articles and investigative work plummeted, and article research turned into op-ed pieces.