It's surprising that people think media quality has declined. It's always been bad, possibly even worse before. "Press Freedom" or "Journalistic Quality" indexe

It's surprising that people think media quality has declined. It's always been bad, possibly even worse before. "Press Freedom" or "Journalistic Quality" indexes have always been awful because it's equivalent to grading yourself. There were limited ways before of determining bias or nuanced government influence. The advent of new information mediums like internet social media has completely transformed that game and increased the stakes of fact verification and information dissemination. They got caught with their pants down and are now paying for it.