See the book “Trust me, I’m lying” to see how the US journeyed from ad & attention driven media (yellow journalism) to subscription/brand driven journalism (The

See the book “Trust me, I’m lying” to see how the US journeyed from ad & attention driven media (yellow journalism) to subscription/brand driven journalism (The New York Times was one of the first with “all the news that’s fit to print”), back to ad/attention driven journalism on steroids (the internet + Google news and Facebook - though less for FB since the algorithm updates). It’s a great/terrifying book and I’ve personally witnessed the results Edit: To clarify, I point this out because there was a good 80ish years where journalism was less about grabbing and holding your attention and more about maintaining subscribers. Since it was very hard to maintain subscribers if you just kept throwing click bait and half-accurate news at them, it helped improve their accuracy.