The Bullshit
&gt; but it isn’t the news and it hasn’t been for ages.<p>I have a better idea. The news has always been shit.<p>There&#x27;s this weird fetish with &quot;freedom of the press&quot; that distorts the fact that news is still a business, run by free market forces, with the same distributions of incompetence and corruption as any free market.<p>It used to be the &quot;nightly news&quot;, but we now have a 24&#x2F;7 always-on consumption culture and news orgs have adapted to fill in all those remaining hours. Consolidation hasn&#x27;t helped, but I can look at any news clipping from the early 20th century and see the same level of bullshit I see today.