Yeah. So much sigh.

the article blames "lazy journalists". Having been on-point to speak with IT press, it's a mixed bag, but most will write the story you give them to write. And those are the good ones!

these days, "reporters" are more likely to be unpaid interns pulling stuff off the web, with no training, no domain experience in what they're supposed to be covering, and no reason to care.

HonuPhoto used to work in journalism. I'm sure he has some thoughts about the decline of the profession. Also, follow the money. Our local paper is owned by a family fixated on lowering their taxes...

it's easy to predict how they're going to cover certain issues and who they're going to endorse. The rest of the paper is just a framework for their tax-the-poor, spare-the-rich messaging.

La la la (viva) la (revolution)!

Journalism is dead, but it will be revived eventually, but not until things get much worse

believe it or not, most newspapers 25 years ago had ethical standards that were taken seriously

the standards and training and professionalism have evaporated as quickly as page counts and revenue

I believe it. And I hope we can find a path back to that before it's all so forgotten that we have to re-invent it.