What is News Media becoming?

[nomadpete]

Just about every thread has drifts about 'The Media.'

So I thought we should have a thread just for News, Etc.

 

[nomadpete]

Technology is posing a serious challenge to the megalithic Merdok empire.

 

I stumbled across something new (to me).

 

“Pink slime” journalism.

It is named after a meat byproduct and describes outlets that publish poor quality reports that appear to be local news.

 

ProPublica, CJR, Margaret Sullivan (then at the Post), Jane Mayer, and many others have written urgently about the dangers of pink slime, but it’s still not a widely-known term.

Seems there are thousands of pink slime fake news websites in the U.S. More than there are local news outlets.

Pink slime content overwhelmingly has a conservative partisan slant. Most of the known major pink slime networks are funded by right-wing dark money groups and billionaires. 

 

I notice that sometimes when I websearch a suspect news item, I sometimes get copy-&-paste repeats on a news outlet that I didn't know existed.