You clueless blockheads aren’t getting it — the mainstream news media is and has been in decline for a while, but as decrepit as it has become, it’s still head and shoulders journalistically above the scatterbrained, mob nonsense of blogger-based, news-like tripe. Whatever tiny amounts of “hard news” that does get broken amid the din of opinionated crap, well, usually ends up being “broken” in the wrong sense — misunderstood, misrepresented, deliberately massaged, or just so screwed-up and lacking key details as to be near worthless at genuine information.
Instead of a solid, responsible free press that at least tries to be accurate, that works hard to dig up the details and then attempts to put things into proper context, what we have now is “boutique news” — whatever your personal and political beliefs are, however nonsensical, there are now multiple outlets to cater to your fragile, touchy and increasingly screwed-up and polarized world view.
There is indeed a “transformation” going on, but not exactly for the better: The Information Age –> The Disinformation Age.
Hope this clarifies.
