What a callous article. It seems the author is angry that a bunch of people came together to fund a company that failed in the end...well, most startups fail anyway.
> Such journalism is a direct reflection of millionaire or billionaire media owners who don’t want to offend sources, advertisers, or event sponsors with bold, truth-telling journalism that has actual teeth. So what you get instead is a sort of journalism simulacrum that fails to critique wealth, corruption, or power with any real consistency, since the wealthy and powerful owners very obviously don’t want that.
If you want to start an activist site, go start one and solicit donations from your rage-baited audience (that's what Techdirt is afterall). The Messenger didn't claim and never wanted to be an investigative news outlet. It was a simple news outlet that churned out everyday news without giving opinions..I actually loved it!
The sheer arrogance of some journalists...and they wonder why their industry is on a massive decline.
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Well, It’s just a legal definition for the organization. Many for-profit Silicon Valley startups don’t make profits either, but employees still get paid and executives cash out hundreds of millions of dollars.
"Oligarchs" refer to underground Russian businessmen that cheaply bought up state assets after the USSR collapsed and sold it for exceedingly higher sums later.
It's a blasphemy to capitalism to conflate those bandits with Western entrepreneurs that founded and built their own companies from scratch, even though they have their own set of issues.
They are giants as far as Russia is concerned...Yandex is the biggest tech company there. Gazprom is a Russian gas giant, Rosneft is an oil giant, etc..
No, the terrible situation is created by gross corruption, mismanagement, and unbelievable incompetence in those countries.
I live in a similar country (Nigeria)…We Africans are the source of our own problems because we choose not to utilize our resources well and plunder the few we extract, not some boogeyman IMF that also gave loans to some countries that are prosperous today.
The civil engineer’s experience rings true from what I’ve seen, but there’s some exception for developers and people of other high skilled professions because they are few relative to the population…paying local developers the same as foreign won’t destabilize but it may for manual labor almost everyone can do.
May I ask how you get sponsors? I have a newsletter/blog with reasonable traffic (>100k page views per month) but can’t seem to find any direct advertisers..
> Such journalism is a direct reflection of millionaire or billionaire media owners who don’t want to offend sources, advertisers, or event sponsors with bold, truth-telling journalism that has actual teeth. So what you get instead is a sort of journalism simulacrum that fails to critique wealth, corruption, or power with any real consistency, since the wealthy and powerful owners very obviously don’t want that.
If you want to start an activist site, go start one and solicit donations from your rage-baited audience (that's what Techdirt is afterall). The Messenger didn't claim and never wanted to be an investigative news outlet. It was a simple news outlet that churned out everyday news without giving opinions..I actually loved it!
The sheer arrogance of some journalists...and they wonder why their industry is on a massive decline.