You seem a little nihilistic about the value of news. I would claim that excellent investigative journalism (I remember the Seattle Times) was critical to overc

You seem a little nihilistic about the value of news. I would claim that excellent investigative journalism (I remember the Seattle Times) was critical to overcome the gaslighting and regulatory capture I'm talking about in the Boeing case. It also spurred Senate hearings and so on. It doesn't feel like royal family gossip to me. (As a Brit living in the US now, I think even some amount of royal family gossip is more impactful than you realize given the ambivalence of that country towards its monarchy, and the possible consequences of that ambivalence.)