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What "journalism infrastructure" is tied to mega corps?
by op03 6y ago
What "journalism infrastructure" is tied to mega corps?
- jawns 6y agoBy that I mean not just the means of production but the means of consumption. It used to be that the means of production was the hard problem (capital costs to create a new print publication were high). But now perhaps the more difficult problem is disrupting the way that people are used to consuming news and persuading them that quality journalism is worth paying for (or at least persuading them that if nobody pays for journalism, quality is going to suffer).
- bcrl 6y agoAll the small independent papers got bought out, merged and had their staff cut. Just look at what Rupert Murdoch and his Canadian equivalent Conrad Black (although his empire fell) managed to accomplish over the past few decades.