Local Journalism is difficult. From “Tony’s Kansas City” 5/20/23
https://www.tonyskansascity.com/2023/05/kansas-city-beacon-blog-bemoans.html
“The future of journalism (lulz) is nothing more or less than begging rich people to pay big bucks for a digital mirror that merely offers slanted opinions & biased reports which satisfy the fickle sensibilities of our ruling elites.“
From the Guardian 5/19/23
Bye bye Vice and Buzzfeed?
Is Google getting ready to replace human journalists? From Futurism 5/11/23
https://futurism.com/google-ai-search-journalism
From Daily Kos:
“. . . when a reporter relays information from “a source close to” someone important, we’re probably looking at a shopped story—one the source was explicitly asked to give to the media. When they say “who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly,” that just means the source doesn’t want their own name attached. And yes, “source close to ‘(newsmaker)’ can often just mean ‘(newsmaker)’ themselves.”