I should have specified. I was thinking in terms of publishing, ruled by Sagittarius. Broadcasting.

Elsa said
I think it will be a long while before the news industry can recover. Besides the loss of credibility (and because of it), their product is devalued.  This is right at the same time they are wanting you to pay to read or to disable an ad-blocker to read. I hit one of those pages and conclude, whatever they've written is going to be bullshit anyway. I click back and forget about it.
You only do this so long before you don't click at all. For example, I would not click on anything "huffpo", under andy circumstance. Your brand is shit, basically. And when the special interests quit paying these outlets...which will happen, they'll disappear from the landscape.

There was a time when Sears was king. Then came Walmart.  Realize it or not, these outlets are not supported by people paying for them. This last election proves how weak they are. Donald Trump was able to win using Twitter, for free. They will lose customers because of this...on both sides. Paying customers, who want their agenda advanced, as well as people on the consumer side who've caught on to the bias in reporting.

I used to love the news. I quit using Google news about 8 years ago (and said so on this blog) due to their bias.  Saturn was in Virgo and I was going on and on about discerning and guarding your mind. I tend to take my own advice.  

I think part of the reason why it's going to be a "long while" is because people are not GETTING IT!!  I mean, I am shocked at people on my Facebook Feed that I thought really had a brain in their head and now they're quoting Huffington Post articles, like it's the Bible!  It's like this election threw a switch and people are literally turning into sheep.  Or.. remember the old, old movie "Time Machine" where the guy goes back in time and finds humanity responding to a siren that hypnotizes them, they fall in line and queue up to be eaten by some underground monsters.  This is akin to what I'm seeing... so weird!!

Another thing I won't click on any more is the "videos" of something as innocent as kittens because now all the videos make you sit through 30 seconds to a minute of advertisement.  For a 10 second video.  I am just incensed over this, they are taking away even the most innocent and pure of things just to sell ads.  

I started reading Reddit threads.  I can pick and choose the real-human news I want to read (with the caveat that obviously some people embellish) but at least it's not some corporation hiding behind someone.  On Southpark, there is a character-- Ike-- and this is what the news reporters now remind me of.

I saw a link about a plane circling over Denver. There was a video - thousands saw this plane.

No report of what it was...what's the point of clicking and reading or watching?

Is it even real?

No way to tell.

News corps will  vanish, in a decade or so. I don't know if anyone else catched the news of  AT&T buying Times Warner, with all this Election frenzy. But it's huge. This is the next step: newscorps will be bought by other communication corps. I  think Rupert Murdoch will be the last pure "media mogul" .

I've never been into big news corporations. That said, I'm not into "post truth" distributed by so called "alternative" newssites, either. I think that we will see a surge of crowd funded journalism in the near future. I buy 10-20 pages articles by a co-op of investigative journalists quite frequently. We don't have a big market in my country, but this could absolutely be the way good journalism continues to be made for English Speaking countries.

Once the veil drops...

I heard an interview of an MIT professor/author - Sherry Turkle - who's been thinking about this topic for years... which is why she wrote a book (Reclaiming conversation: the power of talk in a digital age).

http://news.mit.edu/2015/3-questions-sherry-turkle-reclaiming-conversation-1117