Seems to have worked at making you angry.
Well, triggering the embedded anger at the world anyway
Sorry grubhub doesn’t deliver all the answers and you have to dig at the world yourself some
Well, triggering the embedded anger at the world anyway
Sorry grubhub doesn’t deliver all the answers and you have to dig at the world yourself some
It's all shit, but blaming the journos isn't the solution. If we want to get "real" journalism, we have to pay for it. We need to become the customer so the advertiser isn't and the journos can go back to being the watchdogs on democracy that we desperately need.
If journalists want to get paid, they need to produce something that people really value. It's not up to the consumer to pay for shitty news in the hope that their sacrifice improves it long term.
Plenty of journalists are now self-publishing and getting subscription revenue because they produce content people want. This author choose to play the mainstream media game instead, and so they choose to produce click-bait. No one forced their hand. I don't think blaming Journalists is the solution: the solution is to support good journalists and push back against low quality click bait like this.
And yes, I believe the future will be self-publishing, but it's a hard road for journos compared to being paid to be in a newsroom. And yes, ultimately it's up to us as readers to resolve this, probably by paying for our news.
The only problem with this solution is that people tend to pay for "news" that agrees with their opinions. There's an obvious financial incentive to pander to people's prejudices here.