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.