The treatment of journalism as a business like any other has proven to be a mistake. The interesting caveat is that government funded media like the CBC, TVO and NPR are under attack as being puppets for the administration. Media are required by capitalists to be profitable. More small niche orgs like Canadaland, Betakit and the like are filling gaps created by neverending stream of cuts to traditional journalism outlets. The massive media conglomerates are falling all around us. The internet turned the cost of distributing information to near 0. which destroyed classifieds and other complimentary revenue streams. The ability to get news for free without a subscription was revolutionary like the guttenberg press. However the ROI on each reader was negligible. As google took the lionshare of the revenue newsrooms have been gutted. Mainly local newsrooms, at the cost of oversight. It also brought the cost of disinformation to 0 as well. The signal to noise ratio ha...
A place to track what I'm reading and learning for my own purposes. Opinions are strong but loosely held. The real challenge is to write coherently quickly, if it becomes too time consuming it won't happen.