After clogging my inbox to unusable levels, I've totally changed how I consume my newsletters and articles. © The Author. An Atlantic Canadian four-lane urban road. 2024 felt like the year that traditional media died and resurrected as a zombie. It's still there, it still moves, but there's no life behind its eyes. The focus on what would get enough clicks for advertising has produced services where you are the product. X-Twitter has become too toxic to be a useful news source; Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky haven't attracted enough of a base to share local news in the way I saw previously on Twitter. I have seen news usage of Bluesky picking up recently but still nowhere near Twitter levels. TikTok seems decently good at raising citizen news reports, but it's so full of ads and creators hawking their wares that it's unusable for me personally (I uninstalled the app back at the beginning of 2024 when their big commercialization/marketplace push started). This has led me back to smaller, independent creators.…