[ericmay]

I think you're right to point out whether or not citizens [1] care about the truth is important, and some do/don't but I don't think that has a large effect on the centralization and decentralization cycle here because part of the cycle is simply the proliferation of new media sources of which many will inevitably die and also because I do think people will want more authoritative sources of information instead of everything being "democratized".

[1] I'm explicitly using citizens here instead of "consumer" because I detest that characterization of people and refuse to use the term. We need to have higher standards.