>The issue is the modern ad-based internet economy. Bingo. I honestly think modern "journalism" has more in common with marketing and search engine optimisatio

>The issue is the modern ad-based internet economy. Bingo. I honestly think modern "journalism" has more in common with marketing and search engine optimisation than traditional journalism. That's the sort of high-level view I've adopted to explain this decline. I wrote my first and only substack bit about this last year and have been in two minds whether or not to continue with it. https://benlumen.substack.com/p/thank-god-i-never-went-into-journalism https://benlumen.substack.com/p/thank-god-i-never-went-into-...