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I’ve had a version of this piece in my drafts for a few months now. But after the announcement that Valnet was buying the gaming site Polygon, and that much of Polygon’s staff was being laid off as a result, I figured it was time to finally write the damn thing and look at where journalism — not just entertainment-based but in general — is heading. And it’s a place writers have seen before: permalance.