It's only really bad for Google if people consistently get send to demand media articles and are unhappy with the experience compared with the alternatives. I'

It's only really bad for Google if people consistently get send to demand media articles and are unhappy with the experience compared with the alternatives. I'd imagine for a lot of keywords the demand media article your getting wouldn't be all that bad compared with alternatives available. The key is to rank higher quality sources above this kind of stuff where available. I'm sure average internet users are becoming smarter all the time about evaluating the Google results and the page they land on to decide if there is any value there.