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troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Corporate journalism is digging (no pun intended) its own grave in many cases.

A feedback cycle where no one wants to pay for content, so advertisers are needed to fund their staff, which means clicks and engagement become the metric of success. But, the solution is either publicly funded news (largely unpopular), or regulating the open internet (more unpopular). So, yeah, the death of corporate journalism is coming.

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Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Ah, publicly funded news. Which the junta is trying to eviscerate.

I’ve honestly been pushing for the death of corporate journalism, as we’re past the point where it can be rebuilt. Under this structure, there is no path forward, especially given the widespread fealty revealed last fall by LAT and WaPo.

We have a thriving propaganda community within journalism, but that’s, uh … not the goal here. It’s not as though boots-on-the-ground reporters want to be doing this, but fucked-up motivators lead to fucked-up results in any industry.

But hey, a few more mergers can fix that before it’s revealed as a house of cards, causing mass layoffs while executives sip mojitos.

I hate this timeline.

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