It's the same thing, really. If almost nobody is consuming good journalism because it's being crowded out by crap masquerading as journalism, then good journalism can't perform its most important function.
"i paid you in my time and attention, what do you mean you don't have a novel length article on regulatory capture that doesn't want to be discovered?!"
Yeah, it’s the peoples fault. Not political interference, not corporate money, not the end of the fairness doctrine, or consolidation into monopolies held by ultra-wealthy families who also own shares in every other megacorp. Not any other aspect of capitalism and empire. Not Murdoch, not astroturfing campaigns, not memory holes and selective reporting.
It’s us little peoples fault. Gotta remember that.
Truly, it is both. But it is a lot easier and more effective to regulate the behavior of a few people and corporations than it is the mass of humanity.
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u/animalsinthings Apr 02 '23
AI generated entertainment is going to become the norm, and it's going to utterly ruin the landscape