Hope he doesn't block my double-shot
I took Luke Kornet's coffee test, scored high, and wrote a comment.
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I spent most of today writing Making a New News Business over at the ProjectVRM blog. It begins,
In the dawning decades of our new Digital Age, the news business has shrunk from a galaxy of bright stars to a loose collection of white dwarfs glowing in otherwise dark empty spaces. The empty spaces are called “news deserts.”
In the meantime (at least in the US), the redstream is the new mainstream, while more and more people get news (or what passes for it) from social media and each other. Countless sources are also faked up by AI.
Less metaphorically, the news business has de-institutionalized. How can we re-institutionalize it in digital ways that can also be trusted?
Answers follow. I'm still working on more.
Getting ahead of my selves
I'm up in a few hours to fly from LAX to ORD to IND tomorrow. So I'm getting a few tabs out of the way here before I finish packing.
Speaking of flying
Jim Fallows, writer and pilot (among other things), explains some of what happened to Air Canada Flight 8646 at LaGuardia. I go to Jim first when things like this happen.
Black eye
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