10-04-2019, 11:11 PM
Wow. SI is done.
Too bad we don't have a time machine and can go back and reintroduce journalism to the web in a smarter way. We could let them know that their online presence is not just a supplement to their content, but that it would replace papers and magazines altogether. Perhaps they wouldn't have been so quick to give away content online for free at the start, creating the expectation that it should always be that way and leaving them slaves to clicks to generate advertising dollars as their only reliable income source.
Too bad we don't have a time machine and can go back and reintroduce journalism to the web in a smarter way. We could let them know that their online presence is not just a supplement to their content, but that it would replace papers and magazines altogether. Perhaps they wouldn't have been so quick to give away content online for free at the start, creating the expectation that it should always be that way and leaving them slaves to clicks to generate advertising dollars as their only reliable income source.