Incredibly Bad Journalism: A Sign of the 'Ebbing Tide' of Media Centralization

Because it is not efficient for everyone to be forced to sit through the same irrelevant content and advertising, the media is stratifying, niches abound:

For a very long time (since the beginning of television and motion pictures) the 'tide' of centralization of the media has been coming in: with more and more advertising dollars, and power going to Hollywood and the major networks; to the point where the concept of 'Big Brother' seemed like it would someday be a reality.

Thanks to the Internet, and the birth of the digital publishing age, that 'tide' is now ebbing (thank God!), but there is one very nasty side affects: bad Journalism.

'A recent survey said' or 'Some people believe that' or even 'many people believe that' were not excuses for good reporting at one time: without quoting the source, in some detail, such rash misrepresentations and OUTRIGHT FICTION would not have passed for news, or even intelligent conversation.

But now, since the listeners, readers, and advertisers have so many choices, the once huge budgets that created good journalism; the huge news organization budgets are being split so many ways, that the quality of the content is waning: the accountability for quality is lacking, and the poor quality of mainstream journalism, either because of these trends, or because of the stupidity of the readership and listeners and readers (perhaps a little of both) is causing some of us to almost puke: to turn off the news in disgust.

However, help is on the way: the advent of search: the affect digital publishing has to enable us to find and choose content 'on-demand' will eventually allow us to 'vote with our dollars' and reverse the trend towards the broadcasting for pure garbage, I HOPE!