How to Save Your Newspaper - TIME
During the past few months, the crisis in journalism has reached meltdown proportions. It is now possible to contemplate a time when some major cities will no longer have a newspaper and when magazines and network-news operations will employ no more than a handful of reporters.
Yes, that is my hope.
The old news media is hopelessly corrupt. Anybody who helps to enable it is only enabling - and paying for - more corruption. You see, the old media simply cannot, or will not, understand that advocacy propaganda masquerading as unbiased journalism is a moral and ethical abomination.
But people do, and the notion that “the news” is more popular than ever is simply one priest of the Church of High Liberal Cant whistling past the graveyard.
But hey - go ahead and charge for the content. Erect your walls. The only thing you’ll accomplish is to conceal the festering rot of your too-slow death.
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I don’t know if “conceal” is the right word when no one is bothering to watch.
Heh.
Well, yeah. Except the stench of the corpse is getting harder and harder to ignore.