A lot of newspapers were ads and filler. I'm not sure that comics, advice columns, and classified sections were "news" either.

Sure but you knew what those were.

Now "news" is usually nothing but opinion pieces.

There is still excellent journalism being done. It's on us as consumers to seek it out and not wait to be spoon-fed.

It's really not that hard to stay up to date on the news these days.

So? His use of twitter is one of the biggest things of his Presidency. It's actually quite remarkable how he uses it and how dumb he is on it.

Why is their a constant reduction in News divisions if their is all of this access? Why has there been all of the downsizing if the world has greater access?

I'd say his use of Twitter earned him his Presidency. You know, along with that whole "white nationalist" thing. That's concerning, to say the least.

So that means there being a lot of articles about it makes sense then.

I am learning a lot in this thread. One, Brick has shown me it is not awkward looking to use Also to start three consecutive sentences. Two, no one is going to bust LTG's ass for using their instead of there a couple times in a post. Third, and most importantly, the press corporations never tried to make a profit before 1990.

I am learning a lot in this thread. One, Brick has shown me it is not awkward looking to use Also to start three consecutive sentences. Two, no one is going to bust LTG's ass for using their instead of there a couple times in a post. Third, and most importantly, the press corporations never tried to make a profit before 1990.

Many traditional news agencies have failed to evolve and have been passed by others. Also, automation has had an effect. Also, advertising models have put less money on traditional print. Also, many newspapers have consolidated or gone out of business.

A person living in the early 90s would marvel at the scope of news now available to us these days. If I wanted I could get all the news I wanted about what is happening in northern Denmark with ease. In the 90s, I couldn't even get that for northern Wisconsin without a lot of work.

Internet has just made it easier for the reader to surround themselves in like minded opinions.

30 years ago, you could buy one paper because it had a conservative slant over the more liberal one. That's about the extent of it.

Now between choosing every voice and algos suggesting more like minded voices more people are in a bubble than ever.

Yeah their instead of there is occurring with a greater degree of frequency for me.

Internet has just made it easier for the reader to surround themselves in like minded opinions.

30 years ago, you could buy one paper because it had a conservative slant over the more liberal one. That's about the extent of it.

Now between choosing every voice and algos suggesting more like minded voices more people are in a bubble than ever.

I'd say it's really the opposite. Yeah, if Pete printed a conservative newspaper, Joe could print a liberal one and get at least similar exposure. Good luck trying to oppose Google and Facebook. And now we have ISPs making editorial decisions.

Websites are determining what is news and what's not. There was always a degree of that going on during the era of newspapers -- editors deciding what to run -- but the rapid nature of news cycles today seem to compromise facts in favor of being first.

Of course, but you've missed my point. The structure of the headline is important and is a specific shift from "the good ol' days."

I am learning a lot in this thread. One, Brick has shown me it is not awkward looking to use Also to start three consecutive sentences. Two, no one is going to bust LTG's ass for using their instead of there a couple times in a post. Third, and most importantly, the press corporations never tried to make a profit before 1990.

I am not going to disagree that today news cycles, clicks and being first doesn't hurt but I cannot believe some of you do not agree that today in general is not better for news. Even if one just self limited their consumption to websites of ABC, NBC and CBS as well as those of 5 major newspapers you have the entire world at your fingertips news wise.

Im talking about the reader's perspective. It is not hard to surround yourself with like minded thoughts, no matter what your beliefs are.

That's pretty much it in a nutshell.

When I wrote for SB Nation -- part of Vox Media -- we were coached on sensationalizing headlines for more clicks. Like the Atlantic article explains, "Tiger Woods Switches to Nike Golf" got far fewer clicks than "Tiger Woods Makes Shocking Choice." You can imagine some of the headlines during his sex scandal, for example.

The primary focus of the news isn't to inform the public any more. It's to get more clicks faster than the guy down the street.

The reader is now the editor.

http://mashable.com/2017/08/21/cloudflare-ceo-interview/#BEnxui7S6PqZ

Prince seems to understand the implications of what he's done here, but he doesn't really seem to care too much. And it's completely lost on him that his elimination of the Daily Stormer while ISIS sites remain is, at the very minimum, a tacit approval of the ISIS sites.

Web hosting and cybersecurity firms in the US and UK have responded to revelations provided by the hacktivist group Anonymous that their services are being used by Islamic State (Isis) to spread online propaganda.

A list of pro-Isis websites and their corresponding web hosts compiled by members of the Anonymous faction GhostSec included Google, Yahoo! and GoDaddy. According to GhostSec, "by far the largest offender" was CloudFlare.

Speaking with IBTimes UK, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare, Matthew Prince, said that his company would not be blocking its service to websites listed, as it would mean submitting to "mob rule".

"Individuals have decided that there is content they disagree with but the right way to deal with this is to follow the established law enforcement procedures. There is no society on Earth that tolerates mob rule because the mob is fickle," Prince said.

"We're the plumbers of the internet," Prince said. "We make the pipes work but it's not right for us to inspect what is or isn't going through the pipes. If companies like ours or ISPs (internet service providers) start censoring there would be an uproar. It would lead us down a path of internet censors and controls akin to a country like China."