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Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
Broadly, the line between excludable and non is the line between where subscriptions vs. ads reign as business models.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • The Glory of Achievement
The marketplace of attention was supposed to solve this problem; we were told that the good channels would be elevated by the platforms and that people would stop watching the bad channels. But the marketplace of attention cares only about attention. The assumption that low-quality or dishonest or dangerous content wouldn’t get clicked
... See moreFreddie deBoer • The Bitter End of "Content"
Suddenly it was not so easy to establish, or agree on, truths. The dawning realisation that we were in trouble coincided with the near-collapse of the broad economic model for journalism. People had – sort of – known that was happening, but in a world of too much news they had stopped noticing.