[TheOtherHobbes]

And why does this apply to journalism and not other pretty useless trash like BTC or ad sales or stock price speculation or content marketing or most local and national politics or startups that only sell gourmet pet food?

The irony is that if someone pitched the old newspaper and print magazine model as a startup today - thought leaders, high quality fact-checked journalism, commercial independence but solid relationships with advertisers - it would be branded incredibly exciting and disruptive.

[theamk]

Of course this applies to all those things as well. And we even have very similar threads about other topics -- like "is SEO evil" or "should we adblock"

This post is about journalism though.