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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

this doesn't get talked about enough consolidated corporate media owners fired all the beat reporters with informed subject matter expertise because they didn't want to pay them health insurance, which degraded informed consensus and created a media environment easily exploitable by bad actors

Anil Dash@anildash.com

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

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jientho.bsky.social
@jientho.bsky.social

The Wire season 5 portrayed this exact problem decades ago, as Twigg, the veteran police reporter, got shoved out and Templeton, the rookie who was making up stories and quotes out of whole cloth as news, got elevated.

Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

certainly also suits corporate power to replace grizzled experience-based truth-to-power journalism with an ad-based infotainment apparatus helmed by a bunch of 12 year olds with minimal understanding of contextual beat history

Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

from there it's a hop, skip, and a jump to create a "news" industry that's basically just a badly-automated ouroboros of infotainment engagement and enragement slop peppered with propaganda and corporatist cack

Tom Evans
@angsto2.bsky.social

It's a sad state of affairs. My local paper went from 110 reporters & editors to 34 It's super thin and costs $3.00 I saw someone write: Who would have thought the 4th estate relied so heavily on people advertising used lawn mowers in the classifieds