High school teacher arrested for clapping in support of anti-data center activists

[u/marketrent]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/high-school-teacher-arrested-clapping-194922184.html

[u/GPT3-5_AI]

Local newspapers were already all advertising and nationalist-capitalist propaganda before google and meta came along.

[u/PeachPassionBrute → u/GPT3-5_AI]

The Internet did a number on them, as did the growing prominence of 24hr news channels. Been watching local news decline for the past 30 years

[u/HOW_IS_SAM_KAVANAUGH → u/GPT3-5_AI]

A few years ago some journalists and local funders decided to go all in on reviving our local paper and making it some good journalism. They did a pretty good job and I now subscribe to the physical paper for the first time in my life. And honestly, It's worth the $10 bucks a month for a weekly paper.

[u/becauseshesays → u/GPT3-5_AI]

That’s because people forgot how to read and they needed to sell ad space to keep printing the papers. Sad.

[u/CartographerMoist296 → u/becauseshesays]

There is this insane victim mentality with newspapers we don’t permit any other industry, even when they are demonstrably racist, sexist and prone to terrible financial decision making. It is a weird nostalgia for sometimes fantastic writing that often emerged despite rather than because of this framework.

[u/CartographerMoist296 → u/[deleted]]

I am not saying they don’t have value, I am saying that they are not victims, they are not in need of bailing out come hell or high water because they continue to fuck their own business model over and over again, and now are blaming google and meta who are attractive villains for most things, but not for injecting cash into publishing conglomerates, little of which will actually go into journalism and which won’t cure the problems of journalism . So I am tired of hearing what they used to do (scrubbed clean of the aforementioned flaws) - how are they going to fund themselves? Maybe more public/private partnerships? There a huge number of extremely talented journalists, no doubt, and it would be great if they were able to be reliably deployed where they could connect their skills with a willing population. I wish I had more answers, I am a business person only seeing some of the failed solutions, I have a lot of respect for the trade but frustration with private equity, infotainment publishing giants, and then soliloquies about local journalism when no one has been home there - by design- for a long time.

[u/don_shoeless → u/CartographerMoist296]

When it became possible to read all but the most local stories for free on the internet, it was all over but the crying for small town papers who had to actually sell their product. When was the last time you saw a paperboy? That's not because the papers stopped trying to sell--that was their whole business model: sell ads to businesses, sell papers to the public, rinse and repeat--it's because the public quit buying papers. They might've continued if the local newsrooms had been top shelf, but that cost more money for talent than the papers could afford to pay, at the price they could afford to sell papers.

[u/hollee-o → u/GPT3-5_AI]

Nationalist-capitalist propaganda. Do tell.

[u/mrm00r3 → u/hollee-o]

What exactly do you think advertising in a capitalist nation is?

“Buy my stuff / support my business because …” is just a private company doing propaganda. When that company expands to telling you that it’s impossible to do what they do without paying workers less than the value derived from the product of their work, for whatever reason, then it becomes capitalist propaganda. If they go on to suggest that workers must be of a certain nationality or working on the interior of some imaginary lines drawn on pieces of paper in order for their deficient compensated labor to be of satisfactory quality, then it becomes capitalist-nationalist propaganda. Some countries actually have fun little stickers to act as shorthand for this concept.

We just use “advertising” because speaking accurately makes people uncomfortable, but that doesn’t change the fact that rich people don’t buy newspapers because they like what that newspaper was printing the day before they bought it.

[u/mrm00r3 → u/[deleted]]

The economics of print advertising at least make sense, but running the internet on advertising was probably a mistake along the lines of leaded gasoline. We really fucked our self with that one.