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You can tell how fucked you are as a country when ostensibly tech-related outlets are writing about constitutional law, because they're part of the few remaining outlets that aren't (yet) under attack.
Not saying they're not good or correct, but it shows that the 4th Estate is not okay.
And even most of these tech outlets are part of mega corporations.
A lot of journalism can be found in a scattered collection of blogs and social media, and few people know most of them.
Humans never had this exact problem of gathering news before. Pre print times had an established way of getting information to us, it might have taken months but was reliable.
The last few centuries of press were supported by advertising. Now, that has collapsed, making the idle rich and underpaid volunteers bear the bunt to take up the slack
Fuck, imagine being so rich and bored, the only entertainment you have left is becoming a supervillain who ruins the world.