Journalists used to have a monopoly on the news. This power bred restraint; whatever their private feelings, they avoided overt personal attacks. Now this power and the consequent restraint are both evaporating. Now they're just Twitter users.
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To make money in online news, you HAVE to be clickbaity. It's not a moral choice, it's a market choice. You can choose not to be clickbaity, but then the clickbaity sites will just eat your lunch.
I know that's true as things currently stand, but I hope it's not the only way journalism can survive. I hope it's just that the full space of possibilities hasn't been explored.
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Trade publications exist as premium subscriptions, and folks like
@TheAthletic essentially do that too. We also, of course, have TV news, which no one on Twitter watches. The mass-market, high quality, regional content that we had counted on is gone and isn't coming back. -
Maybe not regional, but I'd settle for (and in fact pay a lot for) national and international.
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