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Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.bsky.social |
I don't think people appreciate how bad things are in journalism and how terrible a blow it is to democracy. I have never seen the employment this iffy, wages this low, reporting this little in demand (by editors). You wonder how a column like Kathleen Parker's gets printed--that's who's left.
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Anna Lynch
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Parker's column was an embarrassment, even for her.
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conorlyo.bsky.social
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Gee
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Oh, and welcome to pre-fascism, US style.
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Gee
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You tow the billionaire party line, you get printed, pretty simple, sadly.
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Kevin Korb
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The internet has broken a lot of things. Journalism may not be broken, but is clearly damaged. I think there needs to be more publicly supported journalism and public support for journalism as a countermeasure.
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Ana Marie Cox
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And the flight to newsletters is hurting, not helping. I make more money from consulting, podcasting, and teaching right now than from writing for publication. Thank god for the book money that came my way last year. I guess I'm still a "journalist" but I dunno, it's bleak.
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Heidi McDonald
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I worked in radio during consolidation in the early 2000โs. I get it all too well. ๐
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PKPs Powerfromspace1 ๐ Twitter โXโ refugee thank you 'Elmo' ๐
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And in Tech as well. It doesn't help people tell anyone that this the best economy ever ๐โโ๏ธunder Biden - layoffs.fyi
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@tootingmyownhorn.bsky.social
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If ANYONE became a billionaire, chances are they would want to control the system and run the show with their $Bs. Hence, it is anti-democracy to allow anyone to own $Bs of tax-free wealth. Isnโt $100M really enough? Worst problem is dynastic wealth. It is killing the global gene-pool potential.
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Deramin
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I keep thinking of the local people saving the Eugene Weekly from the abyss after being embezzled from. It was either everyone pull together and pool community resources for them, or loose local journalism entirely.
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Skip Montanaro
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I gather Kathleen Parker is a columnist for The Post. What's she saying (not a Post subscriber)?
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RonK, Seattle
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To paraphrase a classic Far Side -- The situation's pretty bleak ... the climate's changing, the billionaires are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.
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Max Zorin
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Paying for good journalism is essential. I pay for so many great news sources that it keeps me very busy. Convincing others that this is actually happening is painfully ineffective. And I run in a highly educated and informed crowd. People don't want to hear the truth. It's too painful.
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Katherine the Sixth
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I just got an NYT push notification for a column by an infamous Covid truther about why Fauci invented it in a lab
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๐ธPaul๐น
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How did we get to this?
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Paul Arzooman
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I don't think a lot of people have time for the kind of writing that a lot of reporters like to do in 2024. For example, if the story is "Finally, The Reason Trump Sucks," I don't need that in paragraph 12 of a story that starts, "The light filtered in through the grime covered window..."
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Aardvark Cheeselog
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IOW journalism has completed the transition from working-class trade to elite hobby, and no longer serves any social purpose beyond dilettantism for the upper 10%. Thus is the Watchdog of Democracy transformed into the Lapdog of Executive Management.
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John Gordon
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I think this affects Econ coverage. Journalists face grim personal economics.
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Huhโฆ
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The cohort who wake up looking forward to reading Parker has to be dying off. Mebbe she works for free. Those exposure dollars are the one cure for irrelevancy, I've heard.
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Mark Shatraw
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Tom Steyer should've saved the money on the campaign and paid for TLC to do a concert to announce his new journalism initiative. Let 100 ProPublicas blossom
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Lauren Hudgins
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You just reminded me to make my yearly donation to my alt weekly.
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Jean Hackman, daughter of Gene
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We do, and in the case of the political press, it's a self-inflicted wound. I saw something this weekend from Sarah Isgur about how SCOTUS is really less right-wing than we think, and the Times put out a piece about the largely discredited lab genesis theory of COVID. They kinda deserve this.
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Al Petterson
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Truth costs money. Lies are free, and sound better. Nobody will pay for truth when there are plenty of free lies that say exactly what they want to her.
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DR Darke
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More like "That's who's Far Right." Thank you! You're a great audienceโI'll be here all week!
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Teton Kali
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I truly hope your writing never goes dark.
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tomstpatrick
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Wall Street Journal is well-funded, as it is one chosen method of propaganda.
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Amanda Marcotte
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And everyone who reads/shares her instead of real journalism is contributing to the problem. The metrics don't care if it's a hate read.
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Jesse Berney
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Feels a lot like what happened to cable channels like A&E, TLC, History, etc. They were supposed to inform, but found cheap shitty reality shows made more money. What's the most profitable "journalism" company right now? Fox News? Journalism can't survive if the only point is making money.
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AJ Farrelly ๐จ๐ฎ๐ช๐บ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
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It's the same here in the UK. The concert of 'balance' has gone completely. ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐ is an option piece โ and the more pungent the opinion, the better.
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I'm Reแดแดกแดแดแด! ๐๐ถ๐๐บ๐ธ
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Ooh you just finished watching #CNN too. ๐ฌ๐บ
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Jay Schiavone
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The Washington Post gave away the game when Fred Hiatt fired Dan Froomkin.
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xox
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As always, one should ask who the destruction of journalism benefits, and who it harms. It's a pretty simple question in this case.
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Dave The Guy From Rhode Island
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It's intentional. Corporate media is billionaire media, and their best interests are served by an ignorant society. Misinformation, disinformation, outright propaganda and hate speech fuel the fascist machine, and they are a big part of it.
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maraleia
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It's really terrifying.
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Hayward
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๐ฏ๐ฏ this is how democracies die.
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Erik Hoffner
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Nonprofit journalism is doing well and growing at least ๐ช
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