A Death of a News Industry
Personal blog of Sam Varghese, who has not published anything in ITWire since June:
A theme we explored thrice today [1, 2, 3], seeing that the news cycles have very scarce signal/output (once upon a time media exposed scandals and covered original stories, not "tweets" or hearsay or press releases)
"I hope Sam Varghese has landed on his feet after what happened to ITWire there," an associate has remarked. "He wrote some good articles before ITWire went totally to pieces and then sold out. I haven't even looked to see if he's there but they don't need his level of skill for only republishing press releases like they have pivoted to doing."
"Apropos news deserts: "Huge Numbers of Bonehead Voters Googled "Did Joe Biden Drop Out?" on Election Day" [as if that's really newsworthy]"
The associate pointed out that national media now uses Elon Musk's site as a source: "In a post on social media platform X, the embassy said..."
So the media is "feeding [a form] of a disinformation engine... on purpose by both the embassy and Yle" (the publisher).
This is a very old problem and it's getting worse.
It'll get even worse with Donald Trump as president of the principal superpower. █