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My cousin was an editor of a smaller regional newspaper for many years, but the paper failed or downsized; and he's been an Uber driver ever since.   Sad.  He has hobbies and family that enrich his life; but he doesn't have the journalism voice he used to have.

Edited June 21, 20241 yr by janea4old

45 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Something tells me that had there been greater efforts to save the “small fish” (local newspapers) of the media ecosystem, perhaps we wouldn’t be seeing such things happen nowadays.

I miss the days when every U.S. city had its own independent newspaper, and they each had their own bureaus in most major cities around the world.   
Not just wire-service reports, but actual reporters from the independent newspapers physically reporting from the other countries.  If something was happening in West Africa, the foreign editor of a Midwestern USA newspaper would be located in Lagos, Nigeria, and send in a report from there.  

We got so much more balanced news that way.
Now we're lucky to read a wire-service report from Johannesburg to cover all the news in Africa.  I exaggerate, but not by much.

The Guardian does have international news, but I don't know where their reporters are physically located.  And how many people read the international section of the Guardian website?

In the old days, mainstream newspapers (that everyone bought) had international bureaus.

Edited June 21, 20241 yr by janea4old

 

The Washington Post has been rotten for years now. I suppose the only difference is they were more comfortable being rotten with their own group rather than someone dumped on them from a great height. 

5 hours ago, janea4old said:

My cousin was an editor of a smaller regional newspaper for many years, but the paper failed or downsized; and he's been an Uber driver ever since.   Sad.  He has hobbies and family that enrich his life; but he doesn't have the journalism voice he used to have.

That really is sad when that kind of change occurs, lives are upended, dreams and careers derailed. As a society, we also miss out on the the connections to our communities, the events that larger media outlets will ignore but are notable and significant to the communities in which we live.

5 hours ago, janea4old said:

I miss the days when every U.S. city had its own independent newspaper, and they each had their own bureaus in most major cities around the world.   
Not just wire-service reports, but actual reporters from the independent newspapers physically reporting from the other countries.  If something was happening in West Africa, the foreign editor of a Midwestern USA newspaper would be located in Lagos, Nigeria, and send in a report from there.  

We got so much more balanced news that way.
Now we're lucky to read a wire-service report from Johannesburg to cover all the news in Africa.  I exaggerate, but not by much.

The Guardian does have international news, but I don't know where their reporters are physically located.  And how many people read the international section of the Guardian website?

In the old days, mainstream newspapers (that everyone bought) had international bureaus.

I miss town/local newspapers as well. There are local-ish news stations on television but it’s not the same in what gets covered. And The Patch newspaper doesn’t do the job either, it’s basically cut and paste coverage.

I know The Guardian newspaper has no choice but to make constant pleas for support but it gets tiresome to wade through reminders in order to read a three paragraph article.

For international coverage, I find that I usually have to either read individual papers from various nations or skim Reuters website and sometimes watch different broadcasts daily (CVM in the Caribbean) a few times a week (BBC World News) or a few times a month (NHK News), if I remember.

Silos of information. That’s the way it works these days, I guess.

Once again, Puck News (who got an exclusive from him) scrambles to save Will Lewis' job:

 

The Daily Beast ran a dishy Will Lewis expose a few days ago, but has their own problems editorially which sound hair-raising:

 

Edited June 22, 20241 yr by Vee

The beat goes on:

 

 

 

https://apnews.com/article/assange-plea-deal-wikileaks-justice-department-d329ba4614dbfa77b5eb968d07fd9bd0

Naturally there's been a number of claims Biden did this to try to help him against Trump. I have my doubts - the "free speech" advocates who are groupies for Assange will just find some reason to doubt his deal (I'm already seeing some say "oh something isn't right") or claim they need to vote for Trump so Trump will pardon him. 

There was an article saying the PM of Australia had asked Biden to send Assange back to Australia due to his failing health. I could see Biden deciding to be compassionate, and possibly give Trump a poke in the eye.

A Brian Stelter piece, but pretty in-depth:

 

The most undercovered company in the media and entertainment world is YouTube. I spoke with some YouTube execs and creators about why YouTube’s dominance keeps expanding and asked Hollywood’s main players what they’re doing about it. https://t.co/X75JplvZ1a

— Alex Sherman (@sherman4949) June 26, 2024

The "liberal media" already sharting out their bothsidesbothsides takes.