Uh, most newsworthy topics cannot be articulated in a 10 bullet listicle or 30 second teaser video. Plenty of intelligent people have no problem reading longfor

Uh, most newsworthy topics cannot be articulated in a 10 bullet listicle or 30 second teaser video. Plenty of intelligent people have no problem reading longform journalism, so yes, at least one component of this is in fact "people are stupid." Or they're at least too lazy to confront the complexity of the world.