Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing

I paid for a newspaper and the only thing factual was the cartoons. Fake news has been around longer than the Internet. Look at Supermarket tabloids. Look at all of the journalists being fired now.

Fake news is paid for with advertising and collecting info on the readers. Sometimes you have to pay for it as well.

Newspaper I paid for reported falsely that a friend of mine's parents had neglected their spinal meningitis daughter and she died. They rushed her to the hospital in their van knocking off the rack on top to get her help because they couldn't wait for an ambulance. She died anyway, and they charged the parents even if they did everything correctly to save her. From that day I learned of fake news.

I do pay, just to alt-media companies that I respect more than the NY Times. MSM won't get my dime while they push political agendas instead and target the opposition.

I subscribed to a year of Washington Post and received a ton of spam-ish content, notifications, and pleas to renew during the entire period. Lesson learned, cancelled with predjudice.

"The impact on journalism has been clear. Just within the past week, we have seen over 1,000 planned layoffs at Gannett, BuzzFeed and HuffPost"

I had never considered the click-bait outlet "HuffPost" as "quality journalism".

"We can start with the fact that “free” isn’t a good business model for quality journalism." Well, paid journalism is not a guarantee either: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/claas-relotius...

Stopped reading after this. Whining does not suit the NYT well. It is an outstanding newspaper and has basically, also thanks to the internet, a world wide audience. It is better prepared to the changing business model as most other newspapers. Whining here about google and facebook is rent seeking.

It's worth having ads unblocked on Twitter to get the weekly-or-so NYT ad in the form of a sponsored tweet, click on it, and see that out of hundreds, sometimes thousands of replies to the sponsored tweet, literally zero of them have anything positive to say. Allowing all replies to sponsored tweets to be visible seems like a poor marketing strategy but at least it provides ample entertainment.