Does it matter? In the modern sellout world, by the time something can be considered "Mainstream", it's already well on the way to abandoning the principles tha

Does it matter? In the modern sellout world, by the time something can be considered "Mainstream", it's already well on the way to abandoning the principles that made it successful in the first place and replacing them with "Cost Effective" practices and monetization, what used to be called Selling Out and is now termed "Enshitiffication". It does not matter whether you're talking about the broadcast and cable television media (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox), the new wave media of online-first reporting (All the properties of Conde Nast and Ziff Davis, incl. Wired, Vice, Cracked, Buzzfeed, etc.), or even the third-generation blogosphere (Substack, Medium). There's no trust because success is inversely correlated with trustworthiness.