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Maybe if "journalists" weren't the propaganda wing of a terrorist organisation firebombing federal courthouses, people would be more concerned about their potential extinction.
Learn to mine?
Learn to starve.
It’s the predictable end point of the Marxist dystopia you’ve been trying to propagandize the western world into accepting. Now live your own fucking ideals and starve, commies.
They took our JOBS!!!!!!!
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DURKA DERRR!
Learn to code
America died, source of their work. They helped kill it, playing a principal role. Suicide is more malevolent at the communal level, eh?
I want to know if it's even more meta in that the comparison about being worse than coal mining is only true if you manipulate the data in a very specific context, in opposition to the data in broader terms, thus exemplifying why journalism jobs are drying up too.
Been going on for decades. They stopped caring about journalistic ethics when readers no longer were their source of income. Classifieds used to pay the bills. People used to buy newspapers. Hell, some towns even had two dailies.
Craigslist made classified ads obsolete and now newspapers and news shows are funded by corporate sponsors, with minimal income arriving through paid subscribers.
Basically, follow the money. They're paid to dispense a particular worldview and only rarely does that payment come from the consumer.
Mainstream media is dead in the water and has been for a decade.
Bill Clinton's "Summer of Love" allowing cable providers to map out who owned what section of the country, was just one step. Trump approved huge mergers as well. AT&T with Verizon? Something like that.
Expect continued fracturing of sources and plummeting quality as access is expensive and we have 10,000 poorly funded news sites instead of 20 competitive ones.
Dead n gone:
Society of Professional Journalists - Code of Ethics:
https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
Lol, TL;DR!!!
But seriously:
"The Death of the Alt-Weekly As Told By An Industry Lifer"
https://reason.com/2017/11/04/the-death-of-the-alt-weekly-as-told-by-a/
https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/alt-alt-weeklies.php
I miss them. Now they're just what used to be called "the culture section" in newspapers. And the death of intellectual thought in the West accelerates.
Who reads long-form...anything...online? The pop-ups and temptation to just click some button and do something less intellectually demanding is distracting in itself. Hotlinks break concentration, even if you never click them. Etc.
"The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains" (Nicholas Carr) received huge backlash when it first came out. Now? People are blase about the fact that their frontal lobes, the part of the brain that makes them human, is shrinking from underuse.
All this just "dumbed down" America, then the rest of the West first!
As internet connectivity saturates the rest of the world....well, imagine for yourselves. Of course, there's pros and cons, but the negatives are pretty bad and affects far reaching. We are becoming less empathic, and more parrot-like.
Goldfish, really. A nation of goldfish. Edit: or maybe piranha.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7366948/
The risk of being "avant garde": your advanced guard is the first to suffer if you go into a bad place, say over a waterfall or into some brambles. Rear guard can watch and avoid. The West led the way with internet technology and now all of us reading this are "addicted" ...esp after lockdowns. Plus, our society requires internet use now for common transactions.
A more conspiratorial minded person might wonder if there wasnt some devious plan, some overarching order behind the scenes to all of this...
Most of them were never really journalists though. And I don't even mean it from an ideological perspective with them posting biased garbage. Many were just glorified bloggers. Heck, many weren't even getting paid, a la Huffington Post.
"And here's why that's a GOOD thing!"