Elizabeth Reid, Google head of Search, speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, May 14, 2024.“Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right? I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”
That’s pretty much what I hear from my legion of right-wing trolls every time I post a new column link on X/Twitter, but this time the words didn’t come from @ben94756387Brit that one of Earth’s richest men, Jeff Bezos, brought in as publisher of his Washington Post — the storied newspaper whose investigative journalismat the Post to a room of unhappy journalists was kind of obnoxious Amazon-like grip as the “category killer” of U.S.
.” In this year’s election season, American liberty and the light of journalism are fast fading in tandem. The media’s implosion is creating a vacuum to be filled by a growing pool of disinformation — some of it for profit,— and the rest by the utter disinterest of millions.
You don’t need to be a data scientist to connect the dots between the readership plunge for traditional journalism, Trump’s sustained popularity, and some stunning recent statistics likeU.S. unemployment is at a 50-year high when it’s at a 50-year low. Many voters aren’t afraid of looming autocracy because 76% of Americanseasy solution beyond calling London, we’d be seeing it already.