Goodbye from Salon

I'm not sure they were really doing much other than writing "give me reasons to feel smug about my political opinions" slop.

I assume there's good money in that, whether you're peddling your slop to leftoids or to rightoids. But maybe they weren't writing quite the right kind of slop? Or there was too much competition from other slop writers?

Shame if anyone loses a livelihood as a result, however. I may not agree with their politics, but I think that everyone should have a good livelihood.

Alas.

Craigslist was the first nail in the newspaper coffin. Classifieds and adverts ate a LOT of local money. And all of that went poof. CL cost $0 to post. Why would I pay $10 for a week advert?

All the aggregators grabbed news from everywhere, and paid 0 for it. It cost to make. And made nothing. Encouraged the closed/paywall web.

Ganett etm bought a LOT of local papers, and lowered quality as low as they could go. Inertia kept many older subscribers. I know 0 millrnial and younger subscribers.

NYT and other major papers are easy to sign up, and you basically have to die to get rid of. I would never recommend.

There's a lot of factors. Basically most journalists are going to the glue factory, like horses did with motor vehicles.

Oh thank God.

"This is what happens to a publication when it does not have a unique voice. All of these former outlets focused on the same news stories, spewed the same opinions, spread the same talking points, pushed the same narratives, and ignored anything that colored outside the lines. The audience for that is only so large, and if that audience can get the exact same product you’re manufacturing elsewhere, why click on you?"

Broadly paywalled, stopped reading afterwards. But yes, once they were great. I blame society(tm).

Another shitrag flushed, long overdue. Once lauded for their Abu Ghraib coverage, they became indistinguishable (to me, anyway) from their peers, in terms of being a place where one can go to read opinion pieces written from the same point of view one could find anywhere else. And now you can find those same opinions everywhere else on the Internet, so, who cares?

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