Hmm, you may have raised an interesting point there, namely that the quality of the media is very location specific and some countries had better media outlets

Hmm, you may have raised an interesting point there, namely that the quality of the media is very location specific and some countries had better media outlets than others as a rule. Unfortunately, it seems coverage of journalism and its decline and what not is very US centric, which likely confuses the hell out of people from other countries where their media outlets got worse much earlier on/didn't have a golden age in general. Kind of like how US media outlets and YouTubers assume the Great Video Game Crash was some worldwide thing, whereas it really only affected the US market and left the European and Japanese ones almost untouched. It may also explain some of the comments on local journalism, since that stuff over here in the UK isn't exactly fantastic itself. Maybe there's more ambition in local US newspapers than in UK ones, in that they actually did some journalism at some point rather than merely covering what local businesses were up to or what not. Huh, guess there's a cultural divide in how the news is presented too.