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There has been a marked decline in the amount of complexity/detail you get in a mainstream publication about many topics, they've moved to a thoughts/feelings/opinion style of reporting over drier "just the facts" style, I don't know why but I imagine engagement online is better and that's bled into print but not a journalist.

I do know that I find print journalism (generally) far less useful because I like detail.



Mainstream media has to compete for attention with dozens of new classes of entertainment, much more than we used to have in the 20th century.

I find it human that attention span, and willingness to engage deeply with a topic, has declined in such an environment.




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