> It also seems like the ratio of opinion content to actual news has been increasing lately. Well, sure. Now that everyone has access to 24h news for free, the

> It also seems like the ratio of opinion content to actual news has been increasing lately. Well, sure. Now that everyone has access to 24h news for free, the facts become commodities and lose their value, and therefore the reference publications start giving more space to the product over which they have some market power: the analysis of news by picked columnists. If you just want an event log, you're better off skipping the uninterested middleman and just going to AP or Reuters or similar.