Posted on 01/21/2022 5:22:45 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
From a Big Tech crackdown to the rebirth of local news, 16 future-minded thinkers predict where journalism will be in 15 years.
It’s almost conventional wisdom right now that the news media is in a fast-moving crisis, with mainstream news sources collapsing and Americans increasingly divided not only in what they read, but even what facts they choose to believe. How much worse will it get? Or is there a way out? When shunted through digital media, information behaves like water: It flows together, it melds and it finds its lowest common level. The trivial blurs with the profound, the false with the true. The news bulletin and the dance meme travel in the same stream, with the same weight. Content collapses.
Journalism will move closer to being part of the solution. Too often, as part of the power structure, it has exacerbated the problem.
News deserts keep growing. Hedge funds continue to acquire local news operations and cut staffs.
In Democrat-majority states, legislators pump public money into the decaying news ecosystem, with journalists self-censoring any critique that might endanger the cash flow, and almost all of which flows to big population centers.
By 2037, the American media landscape may look more like 1837 than 1937. There will be few professional reporters. Many outlets in 1837 were single-person outfits, just as many news operations will be single-person Substacks or equivalents in 2037. Journalistic norms and standards will be the exception, not the norm.
But some time ago, the wall in journalism separating advocacy from objectivity was breached. Today, as we speak, the “who, what, where and when” of storytelling with an added mixture of “how and why,” has given way to outright selling of carefully tailored tales designed to appeal to targeted audiences, told by opinionated reporters untethered to facts.
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― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Yes..Yes they are unless they repent.
I’ve heard that some newspapers have gone out of business, or switched to internet only publication.
I’ve heard that newspaper circulation, of actual printed newspapers, has declined by almost 40% since the year 2000, and more in some cities.
I’ve heard printed magazine circulation similarly has tanked.
And I’ve heard that ratings for cable news channels has declined over the years. Ditto for programs such as NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, ABC World News Tonight.
I think the internet, via sites like Google, has put a lot of private detectives out of business. And I think the internet, via blogs and vlogs, has put the MSM out of business.
DIY is not only cheaper but, often, better. We don’t need ‘em to tell us what to believe any more. The facts are easily accessible and we can make up our own minds.
Oh, and when you have to put up a teenage girl to be your spokesperson for your manufactured opinions, you’ve already failed.
NPR will last forever.
So will Nina Totenbag who messed around in the Anita Hill story thirty years ago and made up the SC story this week,
The biggies are all taxpayer subsidized, so they won’t go out of business quite yet.
However, once they have utterly destroyed every living thing, yes, they be gone.
—”NPR will last forever.”
As long as the suckers(taxpayers) keep pouring money on it.
Major newspapers like the New York Times are like the dinosaurs watching the comet streaking across the sky ...doomed to extinction. CNN is holding on by a thread and unless George Soros is willing to subsidize their propaganda, CNN will soon be in bankruptcy. The old time alphabet TV networks will plod along shedding viewers and depend more on inane entertainment programing than any news programs.
The only way to get rid of NPR is for China to conquer America.
No American political party would dare touch it.
NPR - National Parasitic Radio
Considering they’re on everyone’s list when the SHTF, yes, yes they are.
Is the media doomed?
We should be so lucky.
50+ years ago, Marshall McLuhan maintained that the rise of electronic media would lead to retribalization. I think he is proving right.
The “Media” hasn’t been the Media for decades. They’re blatant propaganda korporations that violate campaign finance laws relating to illegal political contributions-in-kind.
Is the Media Doomed?
YES! Thanks be to God.
Haven’t spent much time on Free Republic in many years.
To read a commenter mention McLuhan makes me feel like I have come back home.
I reread Understanding Media four or five years ago and I was more blown away than when I read it after it first came out.
When TSHTF, yes.
Printed magazine’s designed to a target readership seem to be doing ok. At least in the Barnes&Noble near me there’s a rack at least eighty feet long with magazine’s on every subject and interest you can imagine.
The wall of objectivity was breached when the first person with a pen, was paid by someone with a viewpoint that they wanted to push.
Journalists have always been hacks with a view point, some were better at pretending to be "reporters of just the facts".
Think about it, who can be "objective", when we all bring our total experiences to every event we see.
We talk about "putting our views in a box" and "just the facts, ma'm" but we all know it can't be done.
The act of 'thinking about a subject' slants our future views.
It's not bad, it's what is.
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