"The few “full-time” journalists who still exist might as well all be clones and even if they wanted to make a splash and perform some important investigative work, they don’t have the time or newsroom help to do so."
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And the major issue is that they couldn't do this even if they wanted to, when "the big boss" doesn't approve. (which is basically always) The "journalists" who are in decline are the parrots. The journalists who keep expanding their influence are the ones here.
67 years old former newspaper junkie. I loved the ritual of reading the newspaper and drinking coffee the first hour of the day. Moved to Florida and started reading Florida Today and began to choke on the liberal propaganda. Our county is VERY conservative. Sent constant letters begging for balance. Gave up on them 10 years ago and they have all but withered and died. Dumb ass liberals they did it to themselves.
I got a tip from Blacklock's reporter one day a few months ago and did some subsequent digging and determined the following.
First, the newspapers and TV are dying a natural death due to the rapid evolution of the Internet.
The internet is faster, up to the minute and more conveient than waiting for the 11:00 news. Even before that the money grubbing owners like Conrad Black would buy up papers then walk down the news room and fire every other reporter. Their goal was to fill the space between the ads with cheap news stories. Wire services did well, investigative journalism not so much.
In Canada successive Federal governments refused to bail out the failing major media until in 2018 the Liberal government suddenly reversed course and invited appx. 30 heads of major media to a meeting to divvy up over half a billion dollars in subsidies. Now the conservatives stated they would never support a failing MSM business, the NDP will never form the government so the only answer to stay alive and get more subsidies is for a news agency to support the liberals. Conveniently this timing in 2018 was a year before the 2019 Canada federal election. So the Canadian media was bought off and they are heavily biased.
In the US the MSM wrote articles to support their advertisers of course so during the plandemic they biased towards the Goverhment narrative and pharmaceutical companies (heavy advertisers).
However this is not enough to save them. Blacklock Report advises that of the Covid subsidies offered in Canada to the MSM, not all were used up as they were tied to staffing levels and staffing levels fell at MSM over the past year.
I read that in New York City the MSM is in such financial straits that they cannot pay their entry level reporters enough to live on. They need a side gig to make rent. Naturally the MSM are not going to attract the brightest reporters like they could in the 60s and 70s when newspapers paid better.
There you have my take on the problem of declining journalism amongst the MSM. However substack and people like Matt Tabbi have made a go of it independently. Thanks Substack!!!
There is one kind of source that may be able to provide an important central function of watching for govt injustices, in spite of what's going on in broadcast print and media... I've got a one-page intro for a voluntary, democratic approach to doing this. Cheers, and glad to find your substack.
I recently canceled my subscription to our local paper after they published a series of fact-free hit pieces on local county administrators. It was nothing but innuendo and negative buzzwords, with no pertinent questions even being asked, much less answered. I wrote letters to the editor, but they didn't publish them. So I dropped them, and will never go back. The sooner they go out of business, the better.
There was a time, (before the internet was pervasive) that newspaper reporters could be as bristly and caustic as they wanted and ask questions no politician wanted to answer. Politicians had no other way to reach the general population other than print and 3 channels of TV to get re-elected so they grit their teeth and answered questions. Now, politicians don't need journalists to get their message out. The result is the journalist has to print what the politicians want them to say or their access is cut off and they are out of a job.
There is no watchdog press. The media cooperates with and perpetuates big narrative scams. That's why blogs and substack are so important. Newspapers are still twitching but are basically corpses.
The Baltimore Sun charges 99 cents per month to view it online. I won't pay it because they won't criticize politicians in Baltimore even though it is the most dangerous city in America.
If you want a one-sided shiz show, check out Forbes. If you’re lucky to get a story by Bruce Y. Lee, let’s just say, it’ll be wrong info. He pushes the narrative in an arrogant, rude, & kind of elitist sort of way. He writes an article on Graphene Oxide that’s a perfect example.
( “of course, it’s not in the vaccines”, you idiot!) He’s wrong, but convincingly confident.
We have had to become investigational journalists, just to get to the truth. It’s exhausting or was.. before Substack.
So many are perfectly accepting of medical studies that are orchestrated & completely corrupt & flawed, ONLY because they are the first 12-20 studies they see when they Google search. 🙈 C’ mon people! Really??!!
Hack newspapers are disappearing is a better title for the article. This is at once good news and a recognition of how technology has opened up the dissemination of information.
"The few “full-time” journalists who still exist might as well all be clones and even if they wanted to make a splash and perform some important investigative work, they don’t have the time or newsroom help to do so."
------------
And the major issue is that they couldn't do this even if they wanted to, when "the big boss" doesn't approve. (which is basically always) The "journalists" who are in decline are the parrots. The journalists who keep expanding their influence are the ones here.
Let them all rot in perdition.
67 years old former newspaper junkie. I loved the ritual of reading the newspaper and drinking coffee the first hour of the day. Moved to Florida and started reading Florida Today and began to choke on the liberal propaganda. Our county is VERY conservative. Sent constant letters begging for balance. Gave up on them 10 years ago and they have all but withered and died. Dumb ass liberals they did it to themselves.
I got a tip from Blacklock's reporter one day a few months ago and did some subsequent digging and determined the following.
First, the newspapers and TV are dying a natural death due to the rapid evolution of the Internet.
The internet is faster, up to the minute and more conveient than waiting for the 11:00 news. Even before that the money grubbing owners like Conrad Black would buy up papers then walk down the news room and fire every other reporter. Their goal was to fill the space between the ads with cheap news stories. Wire services did well, investigative journalism not so much.
In Canada successive Federal governments refused to bail out the failing major media until in 2018 the Liberal government suddenly reversed course and invited appx. 30 heads of major media to a meeting to divvy up over half a billion dollars in subsidies. Now the conservatives stated they would never support a failing MSM business, the NDP will never form the government so the only answer to stay alive and get more subsidies is for a news agency to support the liberals. Conveniently this timing in 2018 was a year before the 2019 Canada federal election. So the Canadian media was bought off and they are heavily biased.
In the US the MSM wrote articles to support their advertisers of course so during the plandemic they biased towards the Goverhment narrative and pharmaceutical companies (heavy advertisers).
However this is not enough to save them. Blacklock Report advises that of the Covid subsidies offered in Canada to the MSM, not all were used up as they were tied to staffing levels and staffing levels fell at MSM over the past year.
I read that in New York City the MSM is in such financial straits that they cannot pay their entry level reporters enough to live on. They need a side gig to make rent. Naturally the MSM are not going to attract the brightest reporters like they could in the 60s and 70s when newspapers paid better.
There you have my take on the problem of declining journalism amongst the MSM. However substack and people like Matt Tabbi have made a go of it independently. Thanks Substack!!!
Journalism has always been dead, since the 1960s at least.
The messengers/couriers life is/has always been at risk.
The truth is that we are all the purist idealization of “journalist” when we stand and speak the truth.
There is no audience for the truth though.
The truth is that;
1-the purpose of news is to sell advertising/propaganda.
2- the purpose of advertising/propaganda is to finance ‘news’.
The definition of advertising/propaganda is persuasive writing to illicit beliefs and actions.
Political activism masquerading as journalism is causing journalism to die. Credibility is gone. The free press has been hijacked.
There is one kind of source that may be able to provide an important central function of watching for govt injustices, in spite of what's going on in broadcast print and media... I've got a one-page intro for a voluntary, democratic approach to doing this. Cheers, and glad to find your substack.
https://markgmeyers.substack.com/p/introduction-to-a-democratic-approach
I recently canceled my subscription to our local paper after they published a series of fact-free hit pieces on local county administrators. It was nothing but innuendo and negative buzzwords, with no pertinent questions even being asked, much less answered. I wrote letters to the editor, but they didn't publish them. So I dropped them, and will never go back. The sooner they go out of business, the better.
In this interview, Seymour Hersh mentions the state of journalism over the past 60 plus years. https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-02-21-hersh-on-how-dumb-this-leadership-was.html
There was a time, (before the internet was pervasive) that newspaper reporters could be as bristly and caustic as they wanted and ask questions no politician wanted to answer. Politicians had no other way to reach the general population other than print and 3 channels of TV to get re-elected so they grit their teeth and answered questions. Now, politicians don't need journalists to get their message out. The result is the journalist has to print what the politicians want them to say or their access is cut off and they are out of a job.
It isn't dying. It is dead. It committed suicide.
There is no watchdog press. The media cooperates with and perpetuates big narrative scams. That's why blogs and substack are so important. Newspapers are still twitching but are basically corpses.
The Baltimore Sun charges 99 cents per month to view it online. I won't pay it because they won't criticize politicians in Baltimore even though it is the most dangerous city in America.
The media seem to thrive when censorship is public, its rules explicit, and an individual is responsible for it.
That is the case in Singapore and China, whose media are thriving and whose readers overwhelmingly trust what they publish.
If you want a one-sided shiz show, check out Forbes. If you’re lucky to get a story by Bruce Y. Lee, let’s just say, it’ll be wrong info. He pushes the narrative in an arrogant, rude, & kind of elitist sort of way. He writes an article on Graphene Oxide that’s a perfect example.
( “of course, it’s not in the vaccines”, you idiot!) He’s wrong, but convincingly confident.
We have had to become investigational journalists, just to get to the truth. It’s exhausting or was.. before Substack.
So many are perfectly accepting of medical studies that are orchestrated & completely corrupt & flawed, ONLY because they are the first 12-20 studies they see when they Google search. 🙈 C’ mon people! Really??!!
Hack newspapers are disappearing is a better title for the article. This is at once good news and a recognition of how technology has opened up the dissemination of information.