[Mediterraneo10]

> This is why podcasts and longform youtube content form actual experts is thriving while traditional media is dying.

It is kind of sad that the "longform content" that you mention as the new thriving alternative to traditional media, is rather time-infefficient audio and video. I regret the dearth of longform reliable text.

[BlueTemplar]

I don't know why he would think that, you can see good longform text examples on HN every day.

[Mediterraneo10]

Yes, for the subjects that Hacker News is concerned with, but there is a lot more out there than just what appeals to this techie crowd. As someone who has been involved in travel blogging, for example, I have witnessed long-form text becoming less and less popular, and instead images or video are taking over. Obviously it is all well and good to show people things, but there was a lot of useful detail expressed in longform text that you don’t get from the low-information-density formats popular today.