As of 2019, Alden was running over a hundred newspapers, and they’d cut two of every three jobs. It’s a model known as “vulture capitalism,” though a former Chicago Tribune reporter who’d seen Alden’s impact firsthand told Coppins the name didn’t quite fit. “A vulture doesn’t hold a wounded animal’s head underwater. This is predatory.”
McKibben, Bill; Green, Jaime. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024: A Thought-Provoking Anthology with Award-Winning Environmental Insights (p. xi). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
Jamie Green bemoans the fact that science journalism is being cut from periodicals and science writers are being laid off. Given this change in the media business Jaimie encourages people to support science periodicals. I asked in a previous post whether anyone on the list subscribed to any science periodicals?
I subscribe to three: Science News, Scientific American, and Nautilus.
The Republican policies are driving scientists out of the Federal government and have cut grants to Universities and colleges leading to scientists leaving the US for other countries where they can find employment and support for their research. Autocracies are anti-scientific because expert knowledge and skill undermines their power unless the experts can be controlled by the politicians. It’s not only the predatory venture capitalists who are a threat to science and accurate science reporting but the autocratic politicians as well. Trump’s answer to the Covid-19 was that it would just go away in the Spring with nicer weather and people could drink bleach.
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