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Hate to be "that guy" here, but do you see any market mechanisms that will/should lead to more solid, factually reliable outlets? All the ones I see seem to poi

• BurningFrog 6y ago
  Yeah, I'm more expressing a hope than making a prediction :) It seems like such an essential thing that something is bound to appear. If not though pure market forces, maybe through billionaire philanthropy or something. At minimum, I expect much to change in this field. If in good or bad ways, we'll see.
• Gibbon1 6y ago
  I keep saying market incentives are limited and have issues with being gamed. Good faith is important. But in the US we've decided that acting in good faith is somehow immoral.
• _bxg1 6y ago
  It's possible we could see a reversal like we did in food, once people catch on and realize how empty it all is. The health food/organic craze came out of a disenchantment with the old guard. Realness and integrity became the thing to market yourself as. Of course, many companies just changed their marketing without changing their actual product. But the consumer taste changed, at least.
• simonblack 6y ago
  The best market mechanism is to ignore faulty sites. On the web, that means 'no clicks', for the printed news that means 'no sales'. There is a good reason that the number of newspapers printed around the world is a mere shadow of what it once was.
  • DougN7 6y ago
    I don’t believe that has anything to do with newspapers not having integrity and everything to do with much more competition in many more, and convenient media types.