“When you have all of these issues combining in an election year, all these things are happening and it’s this confluence of different factors and stresses on the field that are really making it difficult for journalists to cover the stories we find important,” he said.
What makes matters worse is the rise in misinformation, via robocalls, AI and social media that erroneously parade as the truth. Lewis advises folks to tap into their local outlets and read more than one story on a single topic”
“He also predicted that “the future as it stands right now, there’s gonna be The New York Times and CNN.”
“There’s gonna be some other smaller outlets and there’s gonna be worker-owned outlets and there’s gonna be a bunch of hyper-hyper-partisan, wildly right-wing websites that are just kind of floating around,” he continued.
Journalism is still very much necessary. The way newsrooms function now, however, is clearly unsustainable and bad for not only the industry, but for everyone.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/journalism-layoffs-misinformation-2024-election-ano_n_65e7305ae4b0170871fbbdb6