I think the title is appropriate. I read more and more content (in what used to be considered the more intelligent news sources) that I could pull to shreds lin

I think the title is appropriate. I read more and more content (in what used to be considered the more intelligent news sources) that I could pull to shreds line-by-line, yet the publications are successful and apparently this content is being lapped up. Their seems to be just enough sophistry, pretentious verbosity and reinforcement of existing beliefs to make the reader believe they have read an accurate and objective appraisal of the situation, and to feel confident to regurgitate this speciousness on command as if it's the truth. I'll read some obvious rubbish and can almost predict point-for-point exactly how someone's words will proceed - and these are educated people, supposed to be able to distinguish. It's depressing.