I spend several hours/day reading news on around 30 websites. I don't read anything that starts with an @ I don't use any asocial media. I read news websites.

I spend several hours/day reading news on around 30 websites. I don't read anything that starts with an @ I don't use any asocial media. I read news websites. Given paywalls, I mostly scan headlines. The overwhelming majority of posted articles are pure shit. They couldn't pay me to read them, much less the other way around. When an article seems to contain meaningful information, I find a way to read the contents. Even once I delve into the text of an article, most are badly written. I call the journalistic/literary style "It was a dark and stormy night". They're much more focused on story telling than conveying information. This seems to be what people want now. So, in total opposition to historical news reading, I skip the first couple of paragraphs, instead of expecting to find the gist of the information in those first paragraphs. It's like a classic relationship problem: the issue is on both sides. The media producers are striving to "hook 'em and gouge 'em", and the readers are mostly so vacuous that this seems to be what they're looking for anyway. But don't worry! It's going to get worse, much worse. Good luck with that...