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seven months pass...
I have experience in nonprofit journalism, and think it can be a good thing, yes.
We will never return to the world in which legacy-print outlets are either a great money-making venture or a major determiner of cultural consensus, however. To a sizable chunk of the public, "public media" is basically an arm of leftist propaganda that they will never believe or take seriously. To a different chunk of the public, they're not leftist enough, so again, not to be believed or taken seriously.
While I am sad about this state of affairs, I don't know that there's enough duct tape or Bactine or baling wire or whatever the missing ingredient is to fix the current information landscape. In one sense, there used to be a rough consensus about reality. It was deeply flawed, in incredibly harmful ways, but it was mostly shared.
People nowadays can inhabit mutually unintelligible epistemological spaces, and I am having a hard time being optimistic about the future of information. Sorry, downer
― umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 15:04 (two years ago) link
We will never return to the world in which legacy-print outlets are either a great money-making venture or a major determiner of cultural consensus
You say this but the New York Times is doing a pretty good job at both these things
People say it’s an anomaly but it worked very hard to get that way
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
two weeks pass...
one year passes...
Ok please forgive my bitterness but in the year of our lord 1985 I had a journalism teacher who had never worked for a newspaper or, as far as I could tell, had never read a newspaper.
If this is how print journalism dies, let it be so. I will pull some deck chairs out to the shoreline and wistfully watch it burn.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 07:03 (four months ago) link
three months pass...
i have no particular opinions about the intercept or its corporate structure, but it sure *looks* like ken klippenstein is gonna speed-run the taibbi-gleg process
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 07:23 (three weeks ago) link
three weeks pass...
The Riverfront Times, an alt-weekly I wrote for occasionally years ago, has been sold and all its staff have been let go:
The Riverfront Times' owner has sold the St. Louis alternative weekly newspaper, and its buyer is not retaining any current editorial staff, according to the RFT's top editor."I am absolutely heartsick to see the good writers, editors and photographers who made this publication a must-read for so many years losing their jobs," said Sarah Fenske. "We fought the good fight, and what else can you say? The journalists here did terrific work day and day out. I hope someone will hire them — and that somehow, despite long odds, they'll continue in the 47-year RFT tradition of printing the truth and raising hell."