[obelix_]

I totally agree. The information environment we live in is extremely damaging.

Back in 2006-7 I attended a conference where there was a big panel on what the future of news was going to look like. Lots of newspapers were shutting down. They made 3 predictions - news would be replaced with pandering to the lowest common denominator in the arms race for eyeballs, ads and marketing content looking like news(fake news) would exponentially increase, real journalists would be replaced by the talking head/oped class.

They concluded that the only way out, was to hope that revenue generated from the transition from print to digital/mobile would prevent these three things happening.

Its been a decade now and that transition is more or less complete and many have figured out how to stay afloat and yet all three predictions seem to have come true.