<story><title>There are now more Americans working for online-only outlets than newspapers</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/06/there-are-now-more-americans-working-for-online-only-outlets-than-newspapers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valine</author><text>The relatively consistent number of jobs in broadcast television is surprising to me.  I would have imagined video streaming would cut into broadcast television the same way online publications cut into newspapers.  Services like Netflix have made watching broadcast television almost unbearable due to the obscene amount of advertising.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superuser2</author><text>What do you think they are streaming? For the most part, it seems to be content produced and monetized by the traditional broadcast houses.</text></comment>
<story><title>There are now more Americans working for online-only outlets than newspapers</title><url>http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/06/there-are-now-more-americans-working-for-online-only-outlets-than-newspapers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valine</author><text>The relatively consistent number of jobs in broadcast television is surprising to me.  I would have imagined video streaming would cut into broadcast television the same way online publications cut into newspapers.  Services like Netflix have made watching broadcast television almost unbearable due to the obscene amount of advertising.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&amp;gt; I would have imagined video streaming would cut into broadcast television the same way online publications cut into newspapers.&lt;p&gt;Newspapers were declining through consolidation, scaling back local newsrooms in favor of wire-service and syndicated content, etc., long (as in, consistently for decades) before online publications stepped in to fill the gaps newspapers were leaving as they contracted and collapsed.</text></comment>