A big portion of establishment journalism is now infotainment, but it's unclear if it's the infotainment corporations that are to be blamed here. I know many jo

A big portion of establishment journalism is now infotainment, but it's unclear if it's the infotainment corporations that are to be blamed here. I know many journalists who work for these 'infotainment' businesses who hate the work they're doing but keep doing it anyway because the demand for real news has severely diminished in recent time. If you're a journalist and you want to make money to pay the rent, you probably have to settle on working for an infotainment company. Right now the economic incentive is to get as many eyeballs as possible to show ads to... and the way to do that is to provide infotainment, not real news. I think what this really underscores is another folly of capitalism, or at least the need for government funded or government owned media a la BBC or PBS.