Strangely omits Mastodon. Have threads and blue sky made everyone forget already?
No ads on Mastodon. They’ll write about it when they figure out how to monetize it.
It’s possible this journalist just isn’t on the pulse.
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Well yeah, the internet made anyone who wants to be a journalist capable of being a “journalist” so of course quality goes down. Both the Internet killed journalism and journalists are crap at writing are true, the latter because of the former.
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Those two things aren’t even remotely the same. Comparing them makes zero sense. One is a light weight investigator delivering updates on happenings in the world, the other is a creator of fictional stories for entertainment.
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You claimed journalists became journalists because they couldn’t hack it. Which is obvious nonsense given the fact that there are university courses for journalism. Meaning people intend to become journalists.
I get it. It’s hot to be anti-“the media” right now, but your claims are just reading like a zealot ranting.
From TFA:
This was during the glorious dawn of the Web 2.0 revolution—an era of unbridled Obama-era optimism
So the web two-oh started in 2009 now? I’m pretty sure I first started getting the telltale nausea circa 2000.
