I always thought of journos as search engine bots. Digging up facts. Contributing to the quality of the index of all knowledge. Today the index has turned to s

I always thought of journos as search engine bots. Digging up facts. Contributing to the quality of the index of all knowledge. Today the index has turned to shit cause Google/Facebook/Twitter have decided to reward them not for index quality but for index engagement. The reward/pain mechanism has to change.