• dan1101@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I read an article that suggests classified ads used to support newspapers and hard journalism, and the Internet and sites like Craigslist took away that revenue to pay reporters.

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      12 days ago

      Yep that’s pretty much how it went. Also print ads have lost against digital ads, which pay way less money to publishers and keep paying less each year

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      11 days ago

      I don’t know though papers like the daily mail will rags even back in the 90s. Those people will never journalists.