They are currently allowed to do so, and this attrition has happened without a proliferation of LLMs. This feels like an oranges-apples kinda argument. The th

They are currently allowed to do so, and this attrition has happened without a proliferation of LLMs. This feels like an oranges-apples kinda argument. The thing that's destroying journalism is the current framework for monetizing and how utterly inadequate it is - that, and the lack of a robust middle class; the primary consumer of news. It's easy to point at tech and say that it's what changed so it's the problem - but just like dirt roads were better for horses, sometimes it's the existing structures that need to change. Our ownership model is lost in the modern era and badly needs revisiting.