• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Because only certain positions can be. They’d be folding that part of the outlet, they can run “wordles” or something in its place but I don’t think they can actually do so without loosing money. And that money means a lot to a media company right now. Loyalty trials mean more than just a position but profitability in reach. To own that outlet, they need to sell it to a person who knows the loss they are taking. Unknown loss means losing the entire subsidiary which I doubt many would take.

    If you run a grocery store you don’t give out free endcaps, especially when dying out unless you are planning to be closed. This is like selling isles for free.

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      3 days ago

      Yes, and one of those positions can be ‘political cartoonist.’

      Not hard to get an AI to make a bland, inoffensive political cartoon.