The 'Brand Safety' and 'Suitability' industries have financially crushed the news business by keeping ads away from articles that its 'sentiment analysis' algorithms think will make people sad or upset.
I think the problem is centralised “big house” journalism. I’ve only ever really been happy with special interest, independent, moderately-sized publications. I can drop them and move on when they start to show institutionalised bias that I find distasteful (like the AIM hosting Labor lapdogs, which would be fine, if the party wasn’t ambivalently ableist and infested with documented Christofascists). There’s a certain size of online journal that is actually sustainable given its audience.
I think the problem is centralised “big house” journalism. I’ve only ever really been happy with special interest, independent, moderately-sized publications. I can drop them and move on when they start to show institutionalised bias that I find distasteful (like the AIM hosting Labor lapdogs, which would be fine, if the party wasn’t ambivalently ableist and infested with documented Christofascists). There’s a certain size of online journal that is actually sustainable given its audience.