To me this is just another piece of evidence that traditional "journalism" is dying or maybe dead. (And what I mean is big media organizations that hire writer

To me this is just another piece of evidence that traditional "journalism" is dying or maybe dead. (And what I mean is big media organizations that hire writers who's job is to gather and report news). This is of course getting lost in the big-tech-vs-unions narrative - but at the end of the day the traditional journalism part of Medium was not going to keep the boat afloat, union or not. And as Ev alludes to - the problem is trust. I think Substack is the future for real actual journalism, and I think Ev is right that individuals are where the trust is earned nowadays. I think Substack is the only place we're going to see actual critical thinking and analysis, and maybe the only place for real breaking stories that go against the common narrative. Anecdote Time: I have several friends who are journalists at major newspapers. They used to be people who loved to fight authority at every turn. They were critical of all politicians regardless of party, and would never take a corporate PR team's statement at face value. I'm not sure what happened - but they all follow the same set of talking points now. Not one is skeptical of anything the Democratic politicians do, and I haven't heard one of them criticize a single thing the current administration has done. So really - what future do journalists have if they all think the same? What future do they have if they let the same corporations and politicians write their stories for them? No wonder trust in media is at an all time low.