Ok I see this take a LOT and I think we all need to reckon with how "the Internet" might not have "decimated local journalism" without readers...deciding not to read it when there were more alternatives? https://twitter.com/MuseZack/status/962560673744998400 …
That is your laziest take. The evisceration was through business models that local papers could not compete with
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OK I mean I'd read an actual argument around that.
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The crisis in local journalism stems from a precipitous drop in revenue. This happened not because people stopped reading, but because the readership moved online, where all of the ad revenue is effectively captured by Google and Facebook.
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