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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

oh yeah the broader newspaper industry is turbo fucked. down ~80 percent since 1990

rst.bsky.social@rst.bsky.social

This is one where it might also be useful to see absolutely numbers. It is sadly likely that a lot of this is due to a drop in newspaper staffing elsewhere.

ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

smartphones and the internet, man. they might have destroyed journalism, driven people insane by the tens of millions, fueled a rise in global fascism, and literally touched off genocides, but at least they seem to have caused a global collapse in relationship formation too

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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

think of all the things you can't do without a smartphone though. it was impossible to buy goods and services, or drive anywhere. couldn't be done

david
@dxbx.bsky.social

the worst part was you had to get an actual paper ticket to a baseball game that you could keep as a souvenir. now thankfully everyone is required to carry an oversized calculator to get in