Hacker News Reader

Don't be so cynical. They also add typos!

If readers were willing to pay for good journalism, they would receive some.

>If readers were willing to pay for good journalism, they would receive some.

This is it. Tech journalism is a cesspit of clickbait, hysteria and social justice nonsense because nobody is paying for it and this appeal to the lowest-common-denominator of clicks brings in money.

But then nobody is going to be willing to pay these entities for the content they're using to current bring in revenue.

Tech media makes sports media look like The Partisan Review.

EDIT: Stupid bbcode making me look stupid.

Sports media and weather reports are typically the most fact based things you see in old media. Both are about what happened, and what is going to happen and what opinion is presented is very blatant and well understood.

^ yup exactly