I have some empathy because a lot of "journalists" writing the news aren't actually journalists by trade or training, but rather marketing or "social media guru

I have some empathy because a lot of "journalists" writing the news aren't actually journalists by trade or training, but rather marketing or "social media gurus" or similar nonsense that hasn't taught you how to judge source material, and because they are under immense pressure to do more with less than their ancestors, so nearly every article is just someone else's press release with a little flair added. In many ways, journalism of today is empirically worse off and less useful than journalism of yesterday, simply due to it's seeming takeover by marketing types who have a lose understanding of what we should consider "truth" because they like to make money. But it's so insane when people act like we didn't go to war with spain in 1890s over a supposed attack on our warship that DID NOT HAPPEN, and then didn't increase our involvement in war with vietnam over a supposed attack on our warship that DID NOT HAPPEN, and then we didn't go bomb the desert for two decades because they were full of supposed WMDs that DID NOT EXIST. Yellow journalism is older than your grandparents.