[towaway1138]

From my perspective, news has become far more angry and vicious in the last couple of years. Writers who in the past were more or less kindly and factual (if sometimes a bit goofy) have started putting out really hateful stuff. It's shocking and, yes, depressing.

[HissingMachine]

I moved from general news to specific news a couple of decades ago, mainly because I was in an opportune position to see how the general news just tend to attack something they have really thin knowledge but hold as absolute truth. This was back in the late 90s and even if the more specific news outlets that had the expertise and knowledge to explain and educate, would later come to "fix the holes" it was pretty much pointless since the majority of people would just ignore facts because the story was already told.

News has been angry and vicious for a long time, maybe it's just now starting to hurt everybody due to public exposure by social media, the vicious crews can now attack anybody who has a public surface, and everybody has public surface thanks to social media.