2019 was a transformative year for the U.S. news media industry, but it was also one of the most turbulent points in its history.
The big picture: There were enormous business challenges, which resulted in an unprecedented number of layoffs, desperate product maneuvers and fire-sale deals.
Driving the news: The impeachment of President Trump by the House of Representatives on Thursday was prompted by a whistleblower's complaint, but the stage was set by the dogged reporting of many journalists across the country.
* But despite those efforts, the economic outlook of the news industry is still grim heading into 2020.
* The impeachment process has proven that voters are starting to tune out political coverage, which for the past few years has been the news industry's biggest money-maker. That reality, coupled with an anticipated recession, has newsrooms on edge.
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WNU Editor: Media is losing its audience. There are now so many alternatives to getting the news that the old ways of reading a newspaper or watching the news on TV just no longer hold. Twenty-five years ago I would easily go through six major news papers a day and watch the evening news every night. Today .... I get all of my news from the web, and from sources that I trust.
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"...and from sources that I trust."
Here is a story that the mass media should trumpet.
"The United Nations has placed strict gender quotas on a British Army peacekeeping deployment to Mali in west Africa, demanding more females are sent under the auspices of a special bureaucratic directive."
Well the UN is good for something. They raped a lot of women not only in Congo but closer to home in Haiti. Some of those UN rapers were seconded from Canada.
Roger, what are you implying? Educate me.
Just remember, as I always told my kids; Use several sources and of different types to justify your positions.
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