Back when it was a great, respected, and profitable business, journalism employed thousands of reporters who worked tirelessly to cover interesting and important stories from around the globe. But now, after years of neglect, an overreliance on programmatic advertising, and predation by private equity firms, the industry is but a desiccated husk of its former self, crawling toward death with nothing and no one but The Onion to save it.
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Fortunately, you can do your part to help slow the humiliating and completely preventable demise of media by participating in The Onion’s annual Click Drive.
Today, we invite our dumbest, most loyal readers to spend just a few short minutes of their sad, pathetic, worthless lives clicking mindlessly through various articles, columns, infographics, slideshows, and videos on TheOnion.com. Rather than allowing corporate overlords to gut the industry and sell it for parts today, you can help ensure they …