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Sorry, what on earth is a Beehaw and how does it relate at all to this discussion?
I meant the idea that the general populace is no longer getting their news (directly or indirectly) from sites like that. If they weren't writing articles that got linked around the web they wouldn't sell ads, and if they weren't selling ads they wouldn't exist anymore.
Beehaw is the Lemmy instance we're talking on. And ad-supported is far from the only model for journalism.
Oh, shit, I didn't realize. I'm still getting used to this lemmy/instance/federation thing, my bad.
It's not, but it's what most of them use and they seem to be reasonably successful at it, so as a measure of the abandonment of journalism I think it's a reasonable yardstick.
It is what most use. I left the field after 20 years because of how that started tipping the scales. Independent media are where journalism is being committed these days.
Yeah, I love places like ProPublica that do serious investigative journalism, though I dunno if they count as 'independent' anymore.