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Now that newspapers get their revenue from online subscriptions, being neutral is not only unnecessary, but would harm them. Outrage is the biggest driver of clicks, and the things that outrage the left have no overlap with those that outrage the right.
By switching to subscriptions, the former newspapers of record have essentially become newsletters for the like-minded. As far as I know they've all opted to move left, which was to be expected, since the reporters leaned that way even in the print era.
When it was print, wasn't it by definition subscriptions (plus newsstand)?
It’s all so depressing. And driven by the political extremes.
News in the USA is basically political entertainment. The only model that I can see barely working given the Internet is a govt chartered org that is unanswerable to politicians like the BBC but even that has its issues.
Editorial neutrality has always been a myth and has never been possible. It is not possible to frame a story without bias because every editorial choice you make necessarily carries bias. Neutrality is not the objective.
So what's next?
Since a substantial portion of news is now just rehashing something that appeared first on social media, news readers may just learn to cut out a layer by going directly to apps well-tailored to quick, unfiltered reports from the field. ie: Twitter, TikTok, etc.
That seems true, but new paid media (eg. @stratechery, @ExponentialView, @TheAthletic, etc.) are for the like-minded on different dimensions than the relatively arbitrary/inconstant axis of US politics. And podcasts give hope for free/general media, also oriented differently.
Yes, there is hope there.
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