Not really, no. The shift started long before that. Look, I'm old enough to remember the 1960s. Reporters then tried to be objective. They never succeeded p

Not really, no. The shift started long before that. Look, I'm old enough to remember the 1960s. Reporters then tried to be objective. They never succeeded perfectly, but they tried. The editor of the New York Times deliberately slanted editing a little right, because he knew his reporters slanted a little left. He literally had them put on his tombstone "He kept the paper straight". Nobody aspires to that now. It's not just that we consume more. It's not just that economic pressure has made them have to pump out more stories with less resources. They're not trying for what they tried for before. They gave up on trying to be objective. Yeah, they can't do it perfectly. But the difference really matters. And it will eventually matter to the media. If they aren't going to do what we need... then we don't need them any more.