Once upon a time there was something of an educated, intelligent middle-class who put some hand into managing and editing information for the masses who didn't

Once upon a time there was something of an educated, intelligent middle-class who put some hand into managing and editing information for the masses who didn't have that much time or capacity of questioning and learning everything themselves. Call that education, call it manipulation, call it journalism. It doesn't matter. Fact is: that management is gone. Anybody can spread anything now and most people aren't getting any smarter amidst that hurricane of information, most of it charged in a highly negative way. They get scared, angry and numb.