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 …
Moving online meant surrendering complete control of advertising to the ad racket, heavily subsidized by speculators. Those same ads, and the huge amount of cruft they add to pages, also make reading local papers unappealing. So people read it on Facebook, revenue drops more
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Eventually you have a local paper trying to carve staff down to where print ads and subscription revenue can still fund it. And there are bottom-feeding press conglomerates that then buy out these papers and eviscerate them further
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At no point is the problem "readership is dropping because people would rather read something else."
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