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> While today journalism struggles to make money It rather depends on what you mean by journalism. I suspect your definition is true to the Guardian's apparen
by timewizard 2y ago
> While today journalism struggles to make money
It rather depends on what you mean by journalism. I suspect your definition is true to the Guardian's apparent aims, publishing well researched truths to an interested population. What was being published in the 1800s was most certainly not that; instead, being very similar to the current forms of "opinion journalism" that are exceptionally lucrative today.
- eru 2y ago> [...] very similar to the current forms of "opinion journalism" that are exceptionally lucrative today. They are lucrative, but I don't think exceptionally so.
- chgs 2y agoLucrative doesn’t always mean monetary terms.
- InsideOutSanta 2y agoThey're exceptionally lucrative for the people who can get their viewers to buy their memecoin and send donations to own the outgroup.
- eru 2y agoMemecoins are a very, very small part of the overall economy. Much smaller than journalism used to be in its heyday.
- pjc50 2y agoBoris Johnson was paid more by the Telegraph (£220k) to write one column a week than he was as Foreign Secretary at the same time. Propaganda is lucrative.
- FabHK 2y ago> They are lucrative, but I don't think exceptionally so. Probably not as lucrative as the despicable academic publisher parasites.