Opinion: The internet did it: the downfall of the news and the dismay of the young. What’s truly illogical is making journalism dependent on ads. There was no inherent connection, it just happened, accidentally.
First, the news. There’s not a lot left. We’re misled in Toronto because we still have four functioning newspapers but everywhere, newsrooms are pared or closed, journalists fired or bought out, stories go untold. This is wretched for democratic health. Other things, like shattered careers or profits, matter less.
The point is the ads are mostly gone and the institutions are mostly dead. A government that cares can either fund news directly, like the CBC, or impose taxes and transfer the funds, or force the Googles to share with the news outlets, as the current bill does. And now, the young. The New York Times leftish columnist, Michelle Goldberg, wrote this week about high levels of mental anguish among youth, especially girls. She said it can be statistically best correlated not with real world bummers like climate and war but with “the deleterious psychological effects of social media.”
In this light, I’d like to put in a word for social media. I think they may represent a new baseline for the human experience. That’s all. I know claims for new media technologies are routinely overblown: not just the printing press but semaphore, morse code, movies. Still …
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