Yup, they're getting eaten by bloggers, tweeters, etc beating them for the eyeballs. So it is a race to the bottom for creating the most of who can make the most addictive, flashy, clickbaity content. It's been a steady decline for the last 50 years, so in some ways this is nothing new.
Yup, they're getting eaten by bloggers, tweeters, etc beating them for the eyeballs. So it is a race to the bottom for creating the most of who can make the most addictive, flashy, clickbaity content. It's been a steady decline for the last 50 years, so in some ways this is nothing new.
They simply aren't what they used to be. Legacy media is trying to reinvent themselves in order to keep up with digital media, and they seem to be doing so by turning up the already hyper-focused obsession with 'the scoop'. To borrow a tech term, their reporting is turning to a just-in-time model. JIT journalism. Unfortunately this means they are eliminating quality-control systems (such as editors) that cost money to slow things down. They are rapidly descending to the level of clickbaity reporting that they looked down on only a few decades ago.