[jackfoxy]

I think the polite term for this is advocacy journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy_journalism I too have descended to being pretty much only a headline reader, partly because of the prevalence of advocacy journalism and partly from the shear volume of content of all types which assaults me.

[throwaway0255]

So "advocacy journalism" is basically a form of journalism wherein all the statements are technically factual, but the journalists intentionally and transparently ignore all other ethics and standards of journalism.

I understand why this will outcompete real journalism, but I don't see how it serves anyone.

It also saddens me that this practice has attained a degree of general acceptance that it's referred to as a "genre of journalism." I would refer to it as a more insidious and enduring form of propaganda.