[estaseuropano]

You're right, my comment was unnecessarily harsh and I meant this more for the 'outline' than internet archive links. I was sure I had seen an outline one, apologies.

But while my tone was inappropriate the point holds. Much of the problems we see today are because the news media largely became unprofitable. A few bigger ventures like Reuters still exist, but their money largely does not come anymore from the news business.

As long as news on their own are unprofitable the media and with it the societal discourse will only go further downhill. We should all prefer to see a few ads (or for those that can: pay subscription media) rather than end up deeper and deeper in thr blog-and-opinion-articles information dark ages.

[dexen]

>Much of the problems we see today are because the news media largely became unprofitable.

Close, but not quite there. Much of the problems we see today are because the news media are financed through marketing & PR spend.

This makes the media's Overton Window somewhat limited to what is a good side-dish to marketing & PR. Among other concerns, this causes all content to skew towards middle-class, college-educated middle manager viwepoint. That's not exactly a recipe for a great society. And that leaves many segments of the readership underserved.