[forgingahead]

Unfortunately it seems like the vast majority of content churned out by newspapers is not "real, investigative journalism", but rather clickbait that seeks to heighten anxiety and inflame tribal relations within a population.

I love and want more real, solid pieces of reporting. But it's not there enough to make it worth defending the whole lot of them.

[agakshat]

The issue is that this clickbait anxiety is what Facebook et al. are good at anyway. But investigative reporting has mostly been done by established news orgs. So by losing the news media, we would still have more than enough crappy clickbait articles, but lose the good parts.