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fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

One of the problems that the major news outlets have is that they repeat each other. It’s not merely an issue of AI compiling news stories, but that on top of the fact that all of these newspapers are doing hardly any research. For example, if you live in a town that’s not too large, there might only be one local paper, and they might send out reporters to local events. Obviously you would then go to that newspaper if you wanted to learn about local events, because they are adding explicit value.

But if you’re trying to read about national politics, a lot of the information is going to be the same in a lot of the newspapers. Which means nobody cares about the newspaper itself. And this is a creation of the newspaper’s own decision making over the past few decades.

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realitista@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’d say their decision making was mostly forced by their drop in ad revenue and subscriptions forced by the internet.

Though I do wish that someone would make a Spotify for news so that I could pay once and get access to all of them and at least give them 10 cents per article or something, because I will never pay the subscription cost any are asking.

As much as I’d like to support them, the price to utility ratio is way the fuck off at the prices they ask now.

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- insomniac20k@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s kinda what Apple News+ is but stuck in their walled garden.
  
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  - realitista@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’m okay except for the walled garden part. I get referred to articles in many ways, none of them in Apple News.
    
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    pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    it’s a little annoying but i find searching for the article title generally produces the right result in the news app
    
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- Hugin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s also the speed of news now. When you had a edition a day in print there was time to do research.
  
  Now with instant publishing on the web it’s more important to get the basic story out fast. With the hope it’s the one that sites like reddit pickup.
  
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