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Originally Posted by denphone
All behind the paywall where the vast majority of people cannot access them...
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That's probably why they're good. Because they get paid a flat fee for access to content they're not encouraged to produce click-bait content. They get customers by having good content over the course of a month rather than trying to product as many pages as possible, attracting as many viewers as possible for as cheap as possible. It costs far less to do a 'Top 5 reasons why Game of Thrones is like the Labour party' than do a long-form piece about corruption in the link between the public and private sectors which no one will read.
Also journalism costs money. Advertising is not magic. One of the biggest mistakes of recent years was newspapers giving away content for free in the hope they would get some of the internet money.
Now you have hyper-partisan alternative news sources from the left (Canary etc) and the right (Breitbait) that have no connection to any idea of journalistic standard or much concern for what's actually true and it's turning us all into conspiracy theorists.
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Originally Posted by iadom
for what its worth I still class the Telegraph a a quality paper, along with the Times and the Grouniad.  |
The Telegraph and The Guardian have become a lot more clickbaity IMO and have been firing a lot of journalists.