Right now, 50%-70% percent of traditional news is an article that paraphrase what a source links says.
Simply pointing me to the source link is more than enough for me to get the info.
The weirdest type of articles, are those that announce new products, The product is not available yet, so what does news websites do is that they paraphrase the press release. Matter of fact, a lot of times you would go to the product page only to find that they used a news service to publish their press release (I see it happen most of the times on TechCrunch)
I think I clarified my idea here, it’s not worth violating my privacy to read a news that can be read ad and tracker free on the source website.
Not sure what you think you have described in your post, but that - is not journalism, much less traditional journalism.
So, to forward your dislike towards something that you have either not experienced, or seen, or have no understanding of - is pointless.
I mean, if you were born receltly, then you might have a picture that, what is being offered online (or even generally in the media) might be branded as journalism (which is not), however, the truth is that ‘‘news’’ today is (95%) nothing but a clickbait industry and has very little,if anything, to do with journalism.
The remaining 5% is actually - journalism, but that, just as any other thing for which someone else had put some education, effort and sacrifice in, has to be compensated.
Product advertising is something we have ad- block for. So far, in my life, I have never ever seen, heard or met a person that has convinced me that I need something they have.
I would not call the thing that you are describing “traditional news.” You want high quality journalism? Read a newspaper. YMMV based on the publication but as a general rule, traditional newsprint is still where the good investigative reporting and writing takes place.
I don’t have a lot of money to spend on subscriptions but I do pay for two newspapers. My local paper and the statewide business paper. Both weekly publications. Both delivered to my mailbox (although they have online versions). Both good quality publications overall. I think it costs me $220 a year between the two of them and they are well worth it.
That has nothing to do with “current age” and is how journalism has always worked…
But you just realized that, so now you assume no one else knew.
