Does reading stuff like this make anyone else weep for the future of humanity? And, since this sort of thinking seems to be quite prevalent on HN: does anyone

Does reading stuff like this make anyone else weep for the future of humanity? And, since this sort of thinking seems to be quite prevalent on HN: does anyone subscribing to this dystopian view of today's journalism care to provide a single example of a for-profit publisher that they consider high quality? Because all I can think of when I read about "aggregate[d] timely facts" is the phone book.