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Back in the early days, when our local paper went digital, I couldn't get a simple subscription that just gave me the paper, the WHOLE paper in a PDF, you had t
by mikewarot 3y ago
Back in the early days, when our local paper went digital, I couldn't get a simple subscription that just gave me the paper, the WHOLE paper in a PDF, you had to use their app to get the page you wanted to see, etc. It was horrible.
That was back when I believe the paper honestly reported the news.
Enter the New York Times, the world leading experts in pushing a narrative that the facts can support (or get close enough to support to fudge it). They aren't honest brokers, and most of the industry followed them into the toilet.
- reactordev 3y agoThey showed how you can make more money as BSaaS provider than news paper provider. Of course all the tycoons will switch over. Those who didn’t, died.
- taeric 3y agoTo be fair to the local news company, the tooling to create a PDF was probably not something they had. And I'm sure they were sold on the idea of an app by whoever does own their authoring tools. Reminds me of the odd story of microfilm. I may be out of date, at this point, but my understanding is a ton of libraries were convinced to destroy large parts of their archive to convert into microfilm on the idea that this would be more resilient and easier to work with. Sadly, it has turned out to be neither.