The News Industry Isn't Dying, It's Being Assassinated
The issue isn't lack of capital but a lack of will to devote capital to journalistic activity
This week we'll write a lot about 'Cocainegate' (EPO) and we've just mentioned burnout among Free software developers, which is a related subject.
Our previous short article was about slopfarms and fake news contained in them. Moments earlier we tried hard to find GNU/Linux news (it's dreadful on Sunday nights and Monday mornings); what we found, instead, were digital graveyards in former news sites. For example, it seems like Forbes has again 'canceled' Jason Evangelho, as he's gone again (he only ever made a very short comeback). Forbes is now SPAM.
Some other domains that habitually covered GNU/Linux (but lacked RSS feeds) seem to have gone defunct or totally inactive. We must wonder, has SJVN 'burned out'? Inactive for 2 months already in his own blog and not so active in ZDNet either. "There are no results for "linux"," says computing.co.uk. We've never see this before. They're also paywalled and their latest articles seem shallow, or corporate "buzz" rather than journalism.
Remember Linux.com before the Linux Foundation (LF) killed it? Anything the LF touches turns to dust, including Linux.com. No real posts at all for over a month and in the rare cases where it actually published something it was just PR and SPAM at Linux.com, even LLM slop!
We fully understand that this phenomenon isn't limited to or targeted at "Linux". The problem is growing de-monetisation of the press. Some people prefer an ignorant or uninformed populace. █