What I emboldened are my points. We're talking past each other. Journalism isn't dead it's just changed, like everything else.
You can easily see that a dangerously large number of people can no longer distinguish reputable sources from pure junk. Some of them post right here on this board.
They lost the ability to distinguish 'reputable sources from pure junk' while starring out the window of their shitty HS's and good journalism was lost on them then and thereafter, along with critical thinking skills in lieu of their preferences to pull assertions out of their asses.