This is an important topic, but I think this website is doing a bit of a bad job communicating it. It also at no point (as far as I can tell) provides a timefra

This is an important topic, but I think this website is doing a bit of a bad job communicating it. It also at no point (as far as I can tell) provides a timeframe for when these essays were written? So statements like "in the last twenty years" or "now" have no meaning. Judging by the content my guess would be this website is maybe a decade old? This lack of verifiability is ironically one of the other problems journalism faces today. I think a lot of the problems with news/journalism today are worsened by how ads work online. My hypothesis is that ads, as many news sites use them, degrade trust. And some of the most reputable news sources are paywalled anyways: "The lies are free and the truth is paywalled." This undermines journalism since people now get their news from other, less journalistically rigorous places like Facebook or Twitter, which link to these free "lies". Furthermore, the attention-based economics of ads create a huge conflict of interest with what news sites are trying to achieve. I'm so tired of meaningless headlines meant just to draw me in, in an endless stream of news articles all doing the same thing. I would love to see essays on these problems, but I think this site was created before the problems had seriously gained root like they have today.