American journalism has been under attack since Google, Meta’s Facebook and Elon Musk’s X-Twitter began sucking advertising profits from traditional fact-based news organizations years ago.

The threat has since grown, as Google’s artificial intelligence search function bypasses traditional news organizations to give readers some sort of answer based on, apparently, an amalgam of various original sources. 

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