I disagree that journalism that uses stories, quotes, human interest is bad or causing our misinformation problems. There is a LOT of great, factual, reporting

I disagree that journalism that uses stories, quotes, human interest is bad or causing our misinformation problems. There is a LOT of great, factual, reporting that use real stories. A great example is this recent Wayfair child trafficking article from WaPo (worth a read if you haven't). [1] Adding in the real life experience of the supposed victims, those who spread the information, and then the final story of a believer. How this was the start of her radicalization, directly leads to QAnon, and finally she went to Jan 6 and died. Powerful story from start to finish which is 100% based in fact. This brings what a lot of us view as fringe & quirky online craziness into the real world with real consequences. IMHO the big problem is opinion masked as news. I constantly report on Apple News examples of this. Fox News does it all the time. They put out pieces on there that are opinion and not reporting that are not labeled. They put headlines and push notifications that are opinion but not labeled. A lot of people only see these and don't actually read. They are not reporting facts, or the piece uses just a few facts to support their opinion. When WaPo, NyTimes, even more 'conservative' outlets like WSJ publish they put 'opinion: ' in the headline or minimally the byline and a graph at the bottom about the writer. I'm picking on Fox but they aren't the only bad actors this happens on the left too lots of online outlets like Vox, Mother Jones. But Fox is the modern pioneer of opinion 'news' and probably have the widest audience of a mainstream outlet and IMHO take it farther than what are more like obviously political blogs. Their top shows are all opinion but parade as news. A lot of these personalities have segments that are not based in reality and especially not factual (Tucker Carlson's jan 6 show is probably the most egregious recent example). https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/wayfair-qanon-sex-trafficking-conspiracy/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/way...