> People just have to learn that media is dead and they can’t trust anything anymore. That is easy enough. What is difficult is to teach people they cannot jus

> People just have to learn that media is dead and they can’t trust anything anymore. That is easy enough. What is difficult is to teach people they cannot just trust the people who tell them what they want to hear. > Hopefully honest tellers of first hand tales will exist and get the reputation for honesty they deserve. The odds of that are basically zero. There is no reliable way for people to know whether someone's tales are first hand or not, nor whether they are honest or not. If people stop consuming mainstream media and turn to gonzo journalism, powerful interests will manipulate information channels to direct eyeballs to the journalists they buy. The audience will not notice.