[ethbro]

That's a culture shift (I've got family who worked DNR in WV).

The "single news source" came up heavily in pg's recent writing on inequality et al. The cogent point he made, I think, was that the important part is not whether the source is authoritative or accurate but that it's universally experienced.

And I don't think we'll get that back. I think the best we can hope for is benevolent mix algorithms in Facebook, Google, etc that incorporate reliably sourced articles by people with different viewpoints than our own.

[DrScump]

"the important part is not whether the source is authoritative or accurate but that it's universally experienced."

This is very well said. In Silicon Valley, for example, there has been only one major newspaper publisher for over 60 years.