I think the quality of the industry comes and goes. It probably peaked in the early to mid 20th century. Before that, yellow journalism and muckraking, afterward… well, what we have now, hyper-partisanship, the elevation of opinion writing about the fact finding g side of things… and most annoying to me at least, the absolute self-congratulatory grandstanding. Outlets leaving Twitter in a huff being the latest example of that.
The death of actual investigative journalism along the way has been genuinely sad to see (outside of James O'Keefe, Glenn Greenwald, and a few others).
I think the quality of the industry comes and goes. It probably peaked in the early to mid 20th century. Before that, yellow journalism and muckraking, afterward… well, what we have now, hyper-partisanship, the elevation of opinion writing about the fact finding g side of things… and most annoying to me at least, the absolute self-congratulatory grandstanding. Outlets leaving Twitter in a huff being the latest example of that.
Spot on summary.
The death of actual investigative journalism along the way has been genuinely sad to see (outside of James O'Keefe, Glenn Greenwald, and a few others).