A symptom of the sickness: Glenn Greenwald - perhaps the most impactful purveyor of truth in recent times - resigns from the publication he founded due to editorial censorship.
The root of the problem: selling sensations.
I think there's a name for that profession!
The truth of the matter is that we have to be our own journalists for the topics that we wish to know about. Gather information from people that you know personally or from primary sources. Anything we learn from a talking head should be accepted to the degree that you know the character of the person saying it. (And there's a lot of stagecrafted character.)
Try to find an unsensational news story, it's their only way back.
The hope and the rainbow pill is that journalism stands as dry dead trees in a forest awaiting fire. It is certainly still standing, but doing so it is a huge liability set for a quick end.
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