I agree that the author's framing of having random Twitch streams be "news" because somebody might learn something they didn't is absurd, and the essay relies so heavily on this idea that it is basically unsalvageable.
But...
> News is a newsroom reporting on things of interest.
This doesn't feel right either. It's... not quite circular, but nearly so. It's basically saying there's a single specific historical organizational structure that can produce news, and nothing else. Sure, if you want to provide a steady torrent of news on a huge variety of subjects, you need that huge edifice of journalists, editors, support personel, etc. But why does the same organization need to be producing all the news? What makes the writings of a single individual on a single subject and following reasonable journalistic practices not news?
But...
> News is a newsroom reporting on things of interest.
This doesn't feel right either. It's... not quite circular, but nearly so. It's basically saying there's a single specific historical organizational structure that can produce news, and nothing else. Sure, if you want to provide a steady torrent of news on a huge variety of subjects, you need that huge edifice of journalists, editors, support personel, etc. But why does the same organization need to be producing all the news? What makes the writings of a single individual on a single subject and following reasonable journalistic practices not news?