I&#x27;m sure that most everyone would be fine if 90% of X died out - but it&#x27;s usually a wildly different 90%. This is a corollary to Sturgeons Law (90% of everything is crap).<p>Interestingly, we sort of know what this conflict is: it&#x27;s yellow journalists vs muckrackers.<p>* There are, in the body politic, economic and social, many and grave evils, and there is urgent necessity for the sternest war upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man whether politician or business man, every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.*<p>— Theodore Roosevelt