Did the media covering President Biden miss a story that was right in front of them? That's a question being asked in the wake of the president's halting debate performance in the debate with Donald Trump last week.
I get this, and there are a lot of places pumping out low quality garbage that they just don’t care about.
That being said, staying alive as a news business in 2024 seems extremely difficult. Google + Facebook have fucked around with your business model for a decade, stealing clicks away and aggregating titles and pages (like with AMP). And now AI’s going to fuck everything up, and could fundamentally change how we receive our information.
I do empathize with people trying to report on what’s occurring in the world having to deal with all these larger struggles impacting their occupation.
I get this, and there are a lot of places pumping out low quality garbage that they just don’t care about.
That being said, staying alive as a news business in 2024 seems extremely difficult. Google + Facebook have fucked around with your business model for a decade, stealing clicks away and aggregating titles and pages (like with AMP). And now AI’s going to fuck everything up, and could fundamentally change how we receive our information.
I do empathize with people trying to report on what’s occurring in the world having to deal with all these larger struggles impacting their occupation.