Social media commoditized facts (how monetizable is having the breaking investigative story if the upshot is on twitter moments after the fact?), so out of nece

Social media commoditized facts (how monetizable is having the breaking investigative story if the upshot is on twitter moments after the fact?), so out of necessity, news organizations shifted their differentiation to their editorial narrative. And if the alpha is in interpretation of the facts, people are right to prefer subject matter experts or domain practitioners -- the opinions of whom are now abundantly available on substacks, sites like aeon, or even in twitter threads -- over journalism majors that over-index toward one set of views and one social class, and haven't always done the requisite research to draw informed conclusions. Gell-Mann Amnesia applies now more than ever. I hoped to find a more conciliatory tone in this piece, for some greater level of introspection on their field, but immediately it invokes Trump and how victimized major media companies have been. There are plenty of non-traditional, but non-'Trumpified' news sources that are beating the incumbents on merit. It doesn't need to mean it's the end of democracy.