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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.

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

2 Oct 2025

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

2/10/25, 2:56 pm9 reposts37 likes

ya thank

See: the comPost column today from Rick Reilly complaining about ebikes