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Newspapers love to tell us how important they are2024 Feb 28
Here's yet another New York Times article lamenting the death of the newspaper industry and saying it would be simply sad if it weren't for how "important" newspapers are. What a crock of shit. News institutions die for the same reason any institution dies – because they are bad at what they do and its product served better by other means. For journalism, people are more than happy to speak for themselves and thanks to the internet, their voice can reach you directly without the need for middlemen to muddy their words and provide inaccurate analysis. Not that newspapers have never done anything good or useful, but just like how Hollywood loves to tout their few good movies at the Oscars and hope we ignore that most of what they produce is a flaming dumpster of garbage, so goes newspaper articles. Like that lunatic Michael Crichton taught us, feeling nostalgic for dinosaurs is not a good reason to start forcing them back into life.
Here's yet another New York Times article lamenting the death of the newspaper industry and saying it would be simply sad if it weren't for how "important" newspapers are. What a crock of shit. News institutions die for the same reason any institution dies – because they are bad at what they do and its product served better by other means. For journalism, people are more than happy to speak for themselves and thanks to the internet, their voice can reach you directly without the need for middlemen to muddy their words and provide inaccurate analysis. Not that newspapers have never done anything good or useful, but just like how Hollywood loves to tout their few good movies at the Oscars and hope we ignore that most of what they produce is a flaming dumpster of garbage, so goes newspaper articles. Like that lunatic Michael Crichton taught us, feeling nostalgic for dinosaurs is not a good reason to start forcing them back into life.