[WarOnPrivacy]

>The news is not information and never has been.

Assuming that's true then perhaps we need more journalism & less news.

Journalism here being performance of those duties implied by the 1st Amendment's Freedom Of The Press clause.

[jjk166]

No one was ever going to win a Pulitzer for "yet another climate scientists agrees with widely accepted consensus." I do believe journalistic standards have fallen in recent times, but their job has always been to update us on new and surprising developments, not provide all the information a person would ever need. Climate change, just as an example, is a complicated process and the science behind it can not be accurately conveyed in a 30 second snippet by a layman. A responsible citizen should be able and willing to go out and acquire the background information they need to make an informed opinion, and in this day and age that information is probably only a few clicks away.