Remember when reporters had integrity and you trusted them? (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Thursday, October 22, 2015, 09:25 (3416 days ago) @ Kahzgul

The problem isn't Kotaku or the article, it's that free news on the internet has reduced budgets of legitimate news sources while clickbait revenue streams are growing companies that only spew drivel. The result is that you no longer trust the integrity of reporters. Free news has made you cynical.

Want to solve the problem? Pay for your local paper.

You know what? Don't. Do you know those people?

Those people knew about the problem of Internet journalism. It was foreseeable twenty years ago. As an industry they chose to ignore it and avoid it, and that led to the current situation.

And the decline of due diligence in local reporting began long before the Internet was even a factor.

I went to a local newspaper out of J-school and within a week was told that no kind of fact-checking was ever done because there was no time for it.

There needs to be a way for good reporting and editing to be done, and for there to be reasonable revenue streams to support it, and reasonable costs for consumers to purchase it.

The local paper isn't it, and hasn't been for a long time.