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The problem is that's it's worth about what we pay for it...

• InclinedPlane 12y ago
  That's a problem largely because the transition is a difficult one. The problem is that fundamentally the vast majority of folks who did journalism in the pre-internet era are not suitable for doing journalism in the internet era. That has nothing to do with tech savvy and everything to do with subject expertise, something that journalists have for the most part eschewed. One consequence of that is that a lot of modern journalism is pretty interchangeable. Thus not very valuable in the internet age. Thus not very valued. That doesn't mean all journalism must be that way though, or that people are universally unwilling to pay for good journalism. However, it does mean that in the majority of instances there's no easy transition from where they are now to a state of journalistic practice that is sufficiently valuable and sufficiently valued enough to be self-sustaining in the internet world. We'll likely have a period where a lot of old forms of journalism are dying or dwindling without replacement before new forms come around.