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Jonathan Schofield
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Cycling, designing, coding, over-thinking. Bit sweary. A JS trying to make his JS, CSS and HTML lean and kind. “The times are urgent. Let’s slow down.” —Bayo […] [bridged from mastodon.social/@urlyman on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy/ ]
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@rachelhttps://seethroughnews.org/local-newspaper-shows-its-once-venerable-face-again

As we make clear in our Review Groups’ About descriptions, our criticism of the ethical consequences of this corporate zombification of local newspapers is directed at the boardroom, not at the newsroom. Employers like Newsquest, or the UK’s other giant corporate agglomerator Reach Media, along with relative tiddler corporates Tindle and Iliffe, employ 90% of the UK’s local journalists. Journalists have very little choice but to work for these cost-cutting, bottom-line-driven commercial giants. It must be hard, with mortgages to pay, to work for managers constantly nudging the dial away from the ethical journalism taught at university, and towards the User-Generated Content, clickbait, concealed advertorials and robot-written content that now passes for local news.
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Cycling, designing, coding, over-thinking. Bit sweary. A JS trying to make his JS, CSS and HTML lean and kind. “The times are urgent. Let’s slow down.” —Bayo […] [bridged from mastodon.social/@urlyman on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy/ ]
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