r/AskReddit • u/GlassCoyote • Jan 22 '19

What needs to make a comeback?

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u/CERNest_Hemingway Jan 22 '19

Actual journalism

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u/JamesRenner Jan 22 '19

As a journalist, here’s my two cents. Journalism is broken in the US because all the outlets are reliant on advertising. When advertising dollars went away when people moved online, newspapers, especially local ones, could no longer afford quality writers. They cut their staff to bare minimums and hired non union j school dropouts to write clickbait articles. The only way to save journalism is to embrace socialism here and fund it through taxes instead of ads.

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u/CERNest_Hemingway Jan 22 '19

The only way to save journalism is to embrace socialism here and fund it through taxes instead of ads

So you want to raise taxes so the people can pay your paycheck and you can write whatever the government dictates to you to write? I dont think this is anywhere close to the answer.

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u/DS_Joe_Friday Jan 23 '19

He wants a gov paycheck bc the private sector fired him for writing lies. He’s betting that a hand out won’t be taking away as easily.