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Feedback loops are shorter, news reports are increasingly more useless[0], and our current age is somewhat unique - reporting of the past didn't have a strong economic system attached whose sole purpose is making it less truthful, less accurate, and more disagreeable. I'm, of course, talking about funding media through advertising impressions at article granularity.

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[0] - Gwern makes a really good argument that with the amount of people we have on the planet and how information moves near-instantly around the world, you can plausibly assume that all news reports are flukes, one-in-a-million events, "rare datapoints driven by unusual processes such as the mentally ill or hoaxers are increasingly unreliable as evidence of anything at all and must be ignored." https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood