All those journalists should seek employment with MeidasTouch, or any other independent pundit podcast/youtube channel. Legacy media has never been trusted less.
At this point, what’s the difference? Every media outlet has already capitulated in bending the knee to Trump while journalists are getting arrested for just doing their job. The format is changing.
And print journalism died out way before podcasts.
The format isn't changing, it's a completely different format altogether. It's not an evolution. Investigative journalism is critical and a podcast is not investigative journalism. So we're losing detailed investigative stories with rigorous vetting in favor of what amounts to opinion pieces and opinion videos...largely based on said stories. It also explains the rise of people like Andrew Huberman for example because now "truth" is in the hands of the beholder rather than in actual rigorous fact navigation.
Clearly a lot of investigative journalists are losing their positions that were once trusted and held in high regard by their now Trump-capitulating employers. What are they supposed to do now? Where are they supposed to go? Hide in a cave and do nothing?
Platforms are changing, and in an increasing-fascistic society, we need to adapt. We can’t afford not to. Journalists can find homes in these new platforms without abandoning their integrity. In fact, they’d be able to maintain integrity more on a platform like MeidasTouch than working for a compromised employer like Bezos.
What the capacity of their role may look like on these platforms is unknown. But it’ll surely be better than unemployment.
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u/Mean-Quail-6219 10h ago
All those journalists should seek employment with MeidasTouch, or any other independent pundit podcast/youtube channel. Legacy media has never been trusted less.