Not true. As someone who worked in newspapers for decades, the real reason newspapers have gone away or slimmed down was the advent of online and the subsequent loss of print advertising dollars. It was always those print ad dollars, more than revenue from subscriptions, those millions from daily ads that kept newspapers alive and solvent. Once the readers went to online, the print ads dried up.

One important difference about the so-called journalists today online , is that at our respected newspapers, we had to vet every story with at least two sources of verifiable proof before an editor would let ANY story appear in the newspaper. Today ANYONE can post and/or say anything and call it news, without ANY verifiable facts to back it up, and they do.

There are still a few major newspapers that have enough finances to weather the storm and have successful online versions pulling in some subscribers and some ads. Editorial integrity still matters at these few survivors.

As visual journalists and photographers, what you have to realize is this fight about AI has to do with important legal issues also, as photographic evident is key in many important cases, and that photographic evidence needs to have integrity and remain real and NOT be AI generated. If photographs are no longer real, that can affect our lives and freedoms in many ways.

This is a fight that the National and International courts will want to weigh in on too.

Cheers and best to you.