| What you see is the clickbait. What you don't see are the structural changes to the media landscape over the past 20 years that led to this. Newspapers per 100 million people fell from 1200 (in 1945) to 400 (in 2014). This is from a Brookings study cited in a Wikipedia article on the topic [0]. In 2013, the Chicago Sun Times laid off all its photographers and tasked journalists to take photos as well as provide the research and writing [1]. How would the quality of your work be affected if you had to do the job of 2 people? The classifieds ads business is dead, and subscriptions have been declining for years because "news on the Internet is free". The only "media" that makes serious money is talk radio, which isn't journalism so much as diatribes of political invective. As it turns out, that's what people are willing to pay for, or at least sit through ads for. If anything, "the media" is giving the people what they want. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers#Performa... [1]https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/business/media/chicago-su... |