What is happening with editorial boards is not normal. You need to understand this first.
They are not part of the newsroom, so anyone telling you that is lying. What happened at the LAT and WaPo are the beginning. Have you not read history? They come for you. You just think it’s more steps away.
“About to?”
We’ve been watching journalism die in realtime over the last decade. Jeff Bezos discarding all pretense the other day was just the latest in a long line of failures.
It started in the '90s. It is now barefaced.
Democracy dies at WaPo
We are about to watch the collapse of journalism in real time.
I respectfully disagree.
Conventional media may collapse, but we see very good media outlets doing a great job - ProPublica, 404media, Bellingcat, OCCRP, many local andvregional outlets, … It could turn out to be a good sign if and when the media industry gains a more decentralized structure (the Fediverse is of great support here).
So don’t subscribe to the large media papers and periodicals, support some independent smaller outlets that you like to read.
So, we agree. I should have said “We are about to witness the collapse of corporate journalism in real time.”
But, let’s be reasonable, that should have happened in the '80s.
