In other words, people who wanted their bad faith arguments represented in a world of mostly good faith journalism got their way. "Mostly" because obviously the

In other words, people who wanted their bad faith arguments represented in a world of mostly good faith journalism got their way. "Mostly" because obviously there have always been journalists who were clearly disingenuous, but they took the hit to their reputation in kind. Reputation is barely a thing worth caring about anymore. Everyone takes a hit to their rep no matter what they say, so now they just focus on raking in advertising dollars.