Re:The local news crisis is deepening America's divides
by mola on Monday July 04, 2022 @01:14PM
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If you mean startup as in VC backed super growth oriented companies. Then this set of incentives is exactly what got us here. I don't see anyway local news framework make big money without devolving to the attention grabbing mindless beasts we have now.
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Re:The local news crisis is deepening America's divides
by evtothedev on Monday July 04, 2022 @01:41PM
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But newspapers have always been in the business of grabbing attention. Tim Wu has written about this extensively.[1] The issue for me is that in the past, this generated a lot of positive by-products (i.e. local news reporting on corrupt politicians resulting in them being kicked out of office; local news reporting on polluted water supply resulting in it being cleaned, etc.). With Google/Facebook news, and a focus on national stories, you loose this side benefit.
[1] https://bookshop.org/books/the-attention-merchants-the-epic-...