The economic viability to do proper journalism was already destroyed by the ad supported click and attention based internet. (and particular the way people consume news through algorithmic social media)
I believe most independent news sites have been economically forced into sensationalism and extremism to survive. Its not what they wilfully created.
Personally, i find that any news organisations that is still somewhat reputable have source of income beyond page visits and ads; Be it a senior demorgaphic that still subscribe to the paper, loyal reader base that pay for the paywall, or government sponsoring its existence as public service.
Now what if you cut out the last piece of income journalists rely on to stay afloat? We simply fire the humans and tell an AI to summarise the other articles instead, and phrase it how people want to hear it.
My take is that journalists, was fighting enshittification as long as they could one looming bankruptcy leading to consolidation or closed shop at a time.
twixfel|7 months ago
aDyslecticCrow|7 months ago
The economic viability to do proper journalism was already destroyed by the ad supported click and attention based internet. (and particular the way people consume news through algorithmic social media)
I believe most independent news sites have been economically forced into sensationalism and extremism to survive. Its not what they wilfully created.
Personally, i find that any news organisations that is still somewhat reputable have source of income beyond page visits and ads; Be it a senior demorgaphic that still subscribe to the paper, loyal reader base that pay for the paywall, or government sponsoring its existence as public service.
Now what if you cut out the last piece of income journalists rely on to stay afloat? We simply fire the humans and tell an AI to summarise the other articles instead, and phrase it how people want to hear it.
And thats a frightening world.
rightbyte|7 months ago