I've seen almost every one of my old favorite news cites tear holes in its focus and its integrity chasing clicks. Clickbait, misleading headlines, and wildly

I've seen almost every one of my old favorite news cites tear holes in its focus and its integrity chasing clicks. Clickbait, misleading headlines, and wildly off-brand stories seem to be the norm now. It's gotten bad enough that I've begun filtering my content by author rather than by site. Whenever I see a big headline on a general news site, my first thought these days is wondering how each of the other sites I read will bend over backwards and stretch the story to the breaking point to make it somehow relevant to that site's focus. A recent low point this week was beloved technology news site Ars Technica running a front page story about a man having his forty pound scrotum removed.