There are perverse incentives at work. Given media is advertising funded, they need it to be necessary. It means they cannot run cultural content that informs

There are perverse incentives at work. Given media is advertising funded, they need it to be necessary. It means they cannot run cultural content that informs you of things of a commercial nature. It would be to give away their revenue generating product for free. Rather than your example showing the advertising-economy is successfully informing you of things, it may show that it has extinguished an entire category of cultural programming that could have kept you entertained and informed without being a pay-to-win manipulation game.