All professions have a distribution of competence, whether you're looking at programmers or journalists. There's no evidence that the distribution of good jour

All professions have a distribution of competence, whether you're looking at programmers or journalists. There's no evidence that the distribution of good journalists has fundamentally changed over time other than the effects of just a larger pool of eligible candidates. A quick glance through Peabody and Pulitzer winners over time can quickly confirm this. If anything, I'd argue people are far more principled today than any other point in recorded history. Maybe they're just not your principles.