Imagine if it wasn’t clear to people that the Nazis invaded Poland, there is a vaccine for polio or two plus two is four. Imagine dark forces convincing half the population that facts are “fake news.”
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Contrary to popular belief, the entertainment industry and news business face a remarkably similar problem, and the streaming platforms will start to grapple with it this year: Consumers cannot subscribe to everything. People will seek out content, be it video or other experiences, but there is only so much attention to dispense, so many hours […]
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We tend to agree that journalists must cover what’s important, ignore that importance is subjective and news basically a business, and hope for a reasonable outcome. The Ukraine war has tested this brittle journalistic paradigm, and the results have been… reasonable. The news media arrived at the war in a bedraggled financial state: Google and Facebook […]
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We shouldn’t allow market dogma to destroy a critical public good. The economics are not the only consideration.
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That the news industry is reeling is not a matter for debate. And if there is one data point that should focus the mind for its executives – and for anyone who cares about journalism – it probably is this: for most outlets, most readers arrive from other websites, search results or social media shares. […]
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What could be better than being a foreign correspondent? Over some decades of it I was befriended by Jamaican Maroons, grilled by Moldovan peasants and labelled “zen” by Bono. I huddled with Yasser Arafat, offended Prince Phillip and was abandoned in mid-interview by John McCain. Between absurd such little episodes I got to add a few lines to the rough draft […]
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