I'm also enjoying the fact much of the junk for profit infotainment as you called it is dying out. But that typically means something 'big' will happen again, soon. Then they pounce and spin their narratives round and round.
I've been studying the trend online with talking heads in boxes providing opinions on articles they find. Starting to wonder if that's just for people who can't read or need a bedtime story all day...
In-depth investigative reporting has been gone for so long, it's bound to be new and trendy again. :-)
Probably my favourites are the ones that provided all the links to back up their opinions and encourage their viewers to read them. It's nice they at least assume their viewers can read. lol
It's been a long while since I've come across actual journalism that isn't somehow tied to a side or connected to 'pop' stories.
I know what you mean, as if every single complex issue can have only 2 sides. And then people want to send you all these bad articles and cartoons. I was away last week and off grid, I didn't miss anything. I came back to news that hadn't progressed in that time.
I've been away from it all for months at a time. Same shit, different pile. The interesting 'new discovery' style news still exists, I noticed. Grossly oversimplified though. Made for general audiences. So that's kind of annoying. This is what I'm watching right now. Decent interview at least.
That's very cool.
That's very cool.