Untrue - you could figure out what was going on in the world before. Until people were allowed to get away with creating a media empire that could just pander t

Untrue - you could figure out what was going on in the world before. Until people were allowed to get away with creating a media empire that could just pander to their audience. Hence stuff like creationism or global warming denial first enjoying a campaign of FUD and then landing up on the news as "teach the debate" or other catchy jingles. And then the internet came along and destroyed paper after newspaper. Magazine after magazine. The remainder got bought over and committed 100% to survive in the shortened media attention world. These pitfalls were highlighted but lost in the cheerleading and revolution of citizen journalism. We lost many editorial boards and years of experience. That experience is now being relearned by people manning forums as moderators who don't have the benefit of mentors, or bloggers who are fighting for clicks. The world Was made less clear. A false narrative was used to elevate spurious arguments, emotional coddling to Drive advertising. When the internet hit, the structure gave way to the new necessities of survival.