Technology has been used to absolutely decimate the news media. Organizations like Fox have blazed the path forward for how news organizations succeed in the cable and later internet worlds.
You just give up on uneconomical efforts at accuracy and you sell narratives that work for one political party or the other.
It is a model that has been taken up world over. It just works. “The world is too complex to explain, so why bother?”
And what will you or me do about it? Subscribe to the NYT? Most of us would rather spend that money on a GenAI subscription because that is bucketed differently in our heads.
You just give up on uneconomical efforts at accuracy and you sell narratives that work for one political party or the other.
It is a model that has been taken up world over. It just works. “The world is too complex to explain, so why bother?”
And what will you or me do about it? Subscribe to the NYT? Most of us would rather spend that money on a GenAI subscription because that is bucketed differently in our heads.