> but in the age of social media, I honestly doubt that social media has anything to do with it, but rather the consolidation of ownership of news sources ov

> but in the age of social media, I honestly doubt that social media has anything to do with it, but rather the consolidation of ownership of news sources over this same period of time and an ongoing desire to have very high ad sales rates while having rock bottom news room costs. This is simply the result of that financial calculus playing out over the past two decades.