This is interesting, but hardly surprising. Many, many years ago, when Wikipedia was young, I remember commenting that the usefulness of Wikipedia was inversely

This is interesting, but hardly surprising. Many, many years ago, when Wikipedia was young, I remember commenting that the usefulness of Wikipedia was inversely proportional to the controversy of the content. With anything controversial in any way (the most venomous snake!), an article would go one of two ways. Complete bias towards one side or the other, with no mention of the opposing view, or ultimate beige - removal of anything that could be considered controversial by either side. Ultimately, the article would become useless, but the arguing in the discussion was often insightful. Mainstream media has become like Wikipedia. Captured by ideology, beholden to power, but does not serve you or me.