THRILLED to have a bunch of pieces now to get my teeth stuck into! Thanks for those recs. And on the other note — I actually think the antidote is to lean into the niche. My best performing (there’s no way to write that where it doesn’t sound gross) letters and the ones I enjoy writing the most are frequently the ones that I think even whilst writing, no-one will be interested in this but me. I think maybe the answer is to follow your nose and your curiosity — you (you Eleanor, not you the world) have a good one!
Thank you Pandora for the lovely words of encouragement, following my nose (to the niche!) is very sage advice, and so heartening to know that’s your best performing content. Loved your Colleen Hoover deep dive!
It's not that there is less to say about things - but the trivia you are talking about is easy journalism and the informed good journalists are thin on the ground. The investigative stuff is not supported financially by the media who should be doing it more. Industrial reporting died long ago. Court reporting is very limited. Local reporting has died, largely. Long form is also the preserve of the New Yorker and rarely given room as is costly. Journalists themselves are reducing in number -not out of choice. They are controlled politically and managed and not allowed to report or not sent to places where they could report more. Basically, journalists who could say report on Gaza better it and would say it are not employed by the MSM.
Very true! And I think US journalism is in a different league to UK journalism. But on the more trivial front I would say that about 10 years ago I was reading pop culture journalism that was much more interesting. I sometimes read through archive print magazines and it’s radically more fun (though also problematic too)
THRILLED to have a bunch of pieces now to get my teeth stuck into! Thanks for those recs. And on the other note — I actually think the antidote is to lean into the niche. My best performing (there’s no way to write that where it doesn’t sound gross) letters and the ones I enjoy writing the most are frequently the ones that I think even whilst writing, no-one will be interested in this but me. I think maybe the answer is to follow your nose and your curiosity — you (you Eleanor, not you the world) have a good one!
Thank you Pandora for the lovely words of encouragement, following my nose (to the niche!) is very sage advice, and so heartening to know that’s your best performing content. Loved your Colleen Hoover deep dive!
It's not that there is less to say about things - but the trivia you are talking about is easy journalism and the informed good journalists are thin on the ground. The investigative stuff is not supported financially by the media who should be doing it more. Industrial reporting died long ago. Court reporting is very limited. Local reporting has died, largely. Long form is also the preserve of the New Yorker and rarely given room as is costly. Journalists themselves are reducing in number -not out of choice. They are controlled politically and managed and not allowed to report or not sent to places where they could report more. Basically, journalists who could say report on Gaza better it and would say it are not employed by the MSM.
Very true! And I think US journalism is in a different league to UK journalism. But on the more trivial front I would say that about 10 years ago I was reading pop culture journalism that was much more interesting. I sometimes read through archive print magazines and it’s radically more fun (though also problematic too)