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Don't compare the 90 million to population numbers. Compare 90 million to total media eyeballs at both FOX and CNN/MSNBC, and throw in all other TV outlets.
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Part of the overall decline to me . . .
. . . is how the inverted pyramid style of news has been turned totally topsy-turvy in pursuit of ad revenue. As journalists, we were taught in school that the most important news should be in the first graph–ideally all five W's and the H.
Now so many stories will have a clickbait headline and you have to scroll down to the very end of the story to get to the point, forcing you to scroll past all the ads first. Do they somehow know if you've scrolled to the bottom and so all those ads count as "views?" I'm not sure, but it drives me up the frickin' wall. Serious news outlets like NYT and WaPo still do it right, but anywhere else it's a sure way to make me never look at that website again. BBD
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I’m a lover. A raconteur. And a rouleur. Not a fisherman.
One of the big problems with getting your news from “efficient” sources such as Facebook or Twitter etc is that they’re information silos. It’s a huge problem. |
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Not everyone owns a smartphone (including me) nor cares to get every notification known to man. And quite frankly, this severe weather doesn't warrant such immediate, constant notifications. But we live in a world of FOMO.
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Reporters at my old paper staged a one-day strike on Tuesday, part of the nationwide outrage at Gannett.
I was fortunate enough to never have been involved in labor issues. Aside, I'll add this: I can tell by reading stories those that are barely edited. It's more and more. There are still a good layer of good editors at papers like the WP and NYT, but others have slashed editing functions. Even at the Los Angeles Times, the publicist made a point of saying "no creative positions" were cut, just news editors, copy editors and others. Editing is a creative activity. And it's being lost.
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Or, about to be run through an AI bot.
It's sad what's happening. I don't think our youth knows or cares about any of this.
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Woah, posts deleted without mention. Really didn't think they were any 'worse' than what's already in the 5 pages of discussion.
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I subscribe to Wapo. The digital version is much more difficult to navigate than the paper version. When I was a kid, I would spread out the Roanoke times and read it while eating my bowl of cereal. Always go to page 11 where the real news is. Wapo used to have the real news on page 21, but it's easier to hide things on the digital version.
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Disturbing read today in my news source of choice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/b...s-decline.html “The pain is particularly pronounced at the community level. An average of five local newspapers are closing every two weeks, according to Northwestern University’s Medill School, with more than half of all American counties now so-called news deserts with limited access to news about their hometowns. Of 1,100 public radio stations and affiliates, only about one in five is producing local journalism.” As a tragically funny addendum, my partner’s nephew saw me reading the newspaper and said “what’s that?” He knew what it was, of course, but he just didn’t know anyone still read a newspaper. |
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I had the Orlando Sentinel delivered to my driveway for over 50 years. But it has become more and more expensive to get it that way. (and probably more and more expensive for the Sentinel also), So I made myself get accustomed to reading it on my phone early every AM, and only get Sunday paper in driveway. Have grown to prefer reading it on phone. Cost is way less now to me and I hope they can continue in business like this. I know it costs them way less to give to me in digital form. I would like to stop Sun delivery, but wife likes it.
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My dad kept a paper copy of the Buffalo Evening News until a couple years ago. The subscription price was near (not kidding) $1000/yr when he finally gave it up. He had/kept the online version but did like the paper. I was disappointed as it was all wire feeds and not much other than obituaries locally. |
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