We're paying for our crappy news media
[The news is] something we buy, something we pay for.
We're paying for superficial analyses, talking points, shouting heads, *****gate of the moment, herd journalism and silly local urgencies instead of important international trends. We're paying for fast instead of good. We believe we're paying for hard questions being asked, but we're not getting what we're paying for.
We might pay with a dollar at the newsstand, but we're probably paying with our attention, with attention that is turned into ad sales.
Too often, we fail to stop and say, "Wait, I paid for that?"
Almost everything else we buy is of far higher quality than it was twenty years ago. . . . Is the same thing true of your news?
