I used to spend like $30 a month for a newspaper subscription that was hand delivered to my door. It was normal. But in that time we didn’t have many options. TV and magazines were about it.
Quality journalism just hasn’t really figured out how to thrive like they used to. It’s too easy for any random person to “become a journalist” and post about events far away.
Too easy for me to find multiple free sources online about anything I care about.
There are also way too many interesting events for one media outlet to adequately cover, so my interest level in whatever the headline is for the day at some high profile media company isn’t that high.
It’s a tricky landscape now. The journalists of old could hit hard because of their reputation, either in getting interviews or exposing crazy things. And they had a reputation that, once lost, cost them their career.
I used to spend like $30 a month for a newspaper subscription that was hand delivered to my door. It was normal. But in that time we didn’t have many options. TV and magazines were about it.
Quality journalism just hasn’t really figured out how to thrive like they used to. It’s too easy for any random person to “become a journalist” and post about events far away.
Too easy for me to find multiple free sources online about anything I care about.
There are also way too many interesting events for one media outlet to adequately cover, so my interest level in whatever the headline is for the day at some high profile media company isn’t that high.
It’s a tricky landscape now. The journalists of old could hit hard because of their reputation, either in getting interviews or exposing crazy things. And they had a reputation that, once lost, cost them their career.
Now almost nobody in the news has a reputation.