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Re:National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff wri... by bmitc on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:06AM (#36518486)
The discussion isn't about me, unless you meant the general you. However, that may be the case, but it doesn't reach the scale of the amount of people on the Internet and the pressures of that plus capitalistic markets.
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Re:National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff wri... by symlinkk on Thursday June 29, 2023 @11:32AM (#36521822)
Sounds more like the market doesn’t value “high quality journalism” as much anymore. Especially when you can find primary sources covering events on social media for free. At least for tech news, comments on HN are more succinct, less biased, and more hard hitting than any tech news site I’ve seen.
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Re:National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff wri... by berniedurfee on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:36PM (#36527792)
The market at large. There’s definitely a market for high quality news, but it’s too small to sustain a company.

Great bloggers, vloggers and pod casters are the new great journalists.

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Re:National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff wri... by bmitc on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:38PM (#36529481)
That is my point. The Internet is like a direct tap into the more primitive emotions of humans, linking them up across the world.
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