> There is no quality journalism online, there are a bunch of crooked people trying to push different agendas, and an unfortunately large group of people willing to pretend whichever trash rags are pushing the agendas they like are "quality".
I don't know if I'd quite go that far.
I don't remember when the phenomenon started, but a lot of online platform shifted from news organizations to news orgs with blogs. The first instance I noticed was some years ago when the WSJ, Bloomberg, or some similar organization had a noticeable decline in the quality or articles that had been shared in my circles. It wasn't that the quality was down. They had integrated user blogs that required no clout to contribute. The only way to distinguish between an actual article and the no-name blog contributor was a /pages (or something similar) in the URL. At that point, you may as well have been reading a Medium post.
I do think there is plenty of quality journalism online. I think one of the main issues is that the blog side of organizations has been deeply intertwined with the actual news content. We are so used to blog spam being passed as an official news story from the companies we trusted.
Forbes is probably the worst one here. It's gone from a relatively well respected to publication to one that seemingly publish just about anything, and that's without even getting into their advertising issues.
I don't know if I'd quite go that far.
I don't remember when the phenomenon started, but a lot of online platform shifted from news organizations to news orgs with blogs. The first instance I noticed was some years ago when the WSJ, Bloomberg, or some similar organization had a noticeable decline in the quality or articles that had been shared in my circles. It wasn't that the quality was down. They had integrated user blogs that required no clout to contribute. The only way to distinguish between an actual article and the no-name blog contributor was a /pages (or something similar) in the URL. At that point, you may as well have been reading a Medium post.
I do think there is plenty of quality journalism online. I think one of the main issues is that the blog side of organizations has been deeply intertwined with the actual news content. We are so used to blog spam being passed as an official news story from the companies we trusted.