Or you could look at all the people (some of whom may also be with you in your mirror, I concede) who sucked all the ad revenue out of newsprint and sent it online, where the news is viewed via third party “platforms” (never “publishers”) who suck eyeballs there by offering “news” to the sticky eyeballs they attract. The addiction these online entities knowingly generate means fewer and fewer people care about real investigative journalism - or even just plain reporting of facts and events - and mostly think that news consists of soundbites and memes.
Of course, newsprint’s slowness in seeing it coming and adapting by getting online first, was also part of the problem.
So don’t blame it all on yourself (just some of it).
Something, something my lawn, too. ![]()