MSM and SM Good-bye
A Reporter’s Fight to Expose Epstein’s Crimes — and Earn a Living
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/opinion/julie-brown-epstein-book.html
Commercial journalism had its day, the unstoppable lament about its decline should be superceded by covering, or uncovering, what has taken its place, not in the reports of the decrepit ink-stained cemeteries but in the wild gardens where boards of mercenary directors have no sway.
Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Substack and ilk continue the top down management of information in accord with the draconian rules of business which hawk products as if god's blessing of freedom of the press while operating in closed sanctums overseen by lawyers and accountants carefully in compliance with the privileges bestowed by governments and benevolent taxation (this for the tax-sheltered NGO.coms).
Time to convert the weeping MSM survivors into archives, free of cost, just give up the con-job of hustling with paywalls, begs and outlandish bragging of the good old days.
Maybe a transition of unvarnished reporting on how down and out the earliest rags began before morphing into General Motors, Ford, Standard Oil, IBM, yes, Amazon, Google, serial killers of the Glorious Breaking News Scoop Era.
Really would be admirable to publish all the redactions, withholdings, censorings, shadings, editorialings, condescendings and grovelings to authorities.
No Pultizer for candor.