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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 (three months ago) link