Mainstream media bloodbath

[fast4522]

Nearly a dozen mainstream media companies are gutting staff and scrambling to rescue their struggling businesses.

Why it matters: The media business is shrinking at the national, state and local levels — a scary, stark new reality for thousands of journalists.

The big picture: Media cuts were so severe last year that most industry observers weren't expecting such intense cutbacks in 2024. But an ongoing bloodbath is decimating news outlets nationwide.

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/26/med...urnalism-dying

[Inner Dirt]

So the idiots walk off the job to protest layoffs, that makes no sense.

[Dave Schwartz]

Link is dead.

[edit]

But you can read it here for a little while.

https://archive.is/jhj7p

[fast4522]

Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz

Link is dead.

[edit]

But you can read it here for a little while.

https://archive.is/jhj7p

The link works fine here, your computer is not reading it. Others can verify.

[JustRalph]

The guy put the link on their website got laid off

[fast4522]

Here is another link.

The Media Is Melting Down, and Neither Billionaires Nor Journalists Can Seem to Stop It

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu...st-1235806888/

And

Chaos, Fury Engulf Los Angeles Times in Historic Cuts to Newsroom

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...140000233.html

[TJDave]

The internet makes mainstream media superfluous.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

[Dave Schwartz]

Originally Posted by fast4522

The link works fine here, your computer is not reading it. Others can verify.

Apparently you need an axios subscription.

[garyscpa]

Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz

Apparently you need an axios subscription.

It worked for me. I didn't need an Axis subscription.

[Jeff P]

el gato malo | Jan 23, 2024
new journalism and new world order:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/n...ew-world-order

the internet has been a massive disruptor in this regard by increasing information, breaking monopolies, allowing goods (especially information goods) to become FAR more specialized, and perhaps most of all by near eliminating the cost of entry.

and this is why mass journalism as an industry is essentially a structural zero.

it was never a good model. it was a model based on privilege and anti-competitive preferencing rooted in cost structures and licensure.

but more surely than video could ever have hoped to kill the radio star, social media has killed mass media.

there was, perhaps, a time when mass media could have adapted and changed its ways to find accord with and prosper under this new reality or perhaps there was not and this outcome was as inevitable as sunset, but whatever the case may be, the path media chose was a poor one and they have handled this about as badly and shortsightedly as they could have. and now it’s over for them. they will wallow in sub-mediocrity as all the best and brightest strike out alone to run their own shows. because they can.

it will be the most exacting of selectors:

only the people from which no one wants to hear will be left behind, because if people did want to hear from you, you’d hang up your own shingle and go to them directly. you’d be glen greenwald or russell brand, bari weiss or michael shellenberger, doomberg or heather cox richardson. there is room to be vast or to accrue a more modest niche as a notorious internet feline of questionable goodness. but no one is stopping you. you do not need permission. and you do not need capital. you just need to have something to say, a desire to say it, and people who want to hear it.

and that changes everything.

the better class of journo relishes this and is thriving in this newfound relationship and synthesis with their audience, they experience it as a glory like flight. but the lesser class experiences it as pure, unmitigated pain.

they wanted to push narrative and now those to whom they presume to narrate can push back. they are hothouse flowers unceremoniously cast out into amazonian jungle and suddenly forced to compete with that which evolved here where life was hard and there was no sinecure, no safety. all had to strive. unlike before, getting the job was now the easy part but keeping it becomes the challenge because audience attention is no longer assured by credential and publication vector.

“i’m the editor and it’s news when i say it’s news” is dead.

the AP has abandoned any pretense of even being news any more and has adopted a pay for play “sponsored propaganda” model where special interests give them “grants” to hire staff and report on issues in preordained fashion.

it works for AP because so many other outlets carry AP stories so it still has a one to many force multiplier effect.

but this “activism for hire” model is not going to work for most.

and many are suffering.




obviously, bezos can afford to have a hobbyhorse newspaper in perpetuity if he so chooses. the question is "when will it become too embarrassing?"

meanwhile, twitter and substack are thriving.

but the censorious facebook struggles.

i wonder why?

Imo, the author hits the nail on the head.


-jp
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[fast4522]

Originally Posted by garyscpa

It worked for me. I didn't need an Axis subscription.

It depends on how your computer is setup, I suspect those with Windows 10/11 are having issues.

[PaceAdvantage]

Works just fine for me on Chrome and Win10

[MargieRose]

Works for me on Firefox and Microsoft Edge w/ Win 10.

On a side note:

What doesn't work for me on Firefox is being able to *see* posted tweets. I can post a tweet on Firefox but will only be able to see it on a different browser, e.g. MS Edge. A Firefox issue, no doubt.

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by MargieRose

Works for me on Firefox and Microsoft Edge w/ Win 10.

On a side note:

What doesn't work for me on Firefox is being able to *see* posted tweets. I can post a tweet on Firefox but will only be able to see it on a different browser, e.g. MS Edge. A Firefox issue, no doubt.

When you initially post a tweet, it may not be visible after you click SUBMIT REPLY and you are shown your post. Sometimes it shows you your post and the tweet isn't there and it looks like a blank post.

However, if you refresh the page, it should show up...try that on FireFox next time you post a tweet and see what happens.

[Tom]

These jobs are no longer needed.
All news, other than FOX, comes from the same source, FBI.

All that is needed are readers.

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