End of journalism as we know it
How can we develop new media to produce nuanced discourse and solid recommendations for our politicians?
There’s no doubt the two-centuries-old business model in which we journalists paid our way by scribbling on the back of adverts, collecting pence from citizens who wanted to read it, has collapsed. As journalists, we find that grim. But, as citizens, we sometimes seem to like the idea that journalism is in trouble. We are liberated from the dictates of a trade that’s spent the last two decades retreating from servicing our basic civic needs, systematically shredding its right to mediate our public discourse, losing our trust as fast as it loses our attention.
But here’s something to think about. Are we sure that a public sphere in which the proportion of our civic discourse hosted by traditional journalism falls and that hosted on a demotic, disaggregated web will support our acts of citizenship better?
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