This is a grand vision and diagnosis. It also maintains a studied distance via blanket assertions that are agreeable, and a 100,000 foot view. That makes it har

This is a grand vision and diagnosis. It also maintains a studied distance via blanket assertions that are agreeable, and a 100,000 foot view. That makes it hard to discuss directly without seeming disagreeable. Going with Socratic method: Did anything else happen the last 2-3 decades? Anything that would cause tree pulp, that could charge for ads and subscribers, and thus afford to pay more and subsidize longer research, less popular? Or is it just that the media/journalism/etc., these large faceless groups, all just universally started making opinionated content 20-30 years ago? I'm curious: what did media/journalism looked like 50, 70, 100 years ago. Maybe I could look up newspaper front pages from back then. Was it less opinionated?