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I’d go further and say that most mainstream print journalism is in a competence crisis.

I simply no longer trust journalist in places like the Guardian to have sufficient background knowledge, networks or expertise to surface dramatic stories or assess sources.

Most of what they have online are “live blogs” just repeating whatever some rando tweeted (with no context or analysis) or some clickbait-y opinion pieces that are demonstrably incorrect.

Substack is much better but then the whole task of filtering and assessing sources is put back on to the reader.