@dielan ... once print media died and everyone got their news online - which can be quickly edited and sometimes removed - quality went into the shitter -- https://shitposter.club/objects/046b0113-5622-4619-a941-5374586298f8

Print media's quality was declining long before that. In Los Angeles, the Herald-Examiner (one of two large area-wide papers) closed in the early 1980s, around the time that a local TV station put local news on from 16:30 until the network's nightly news. Afternoon papers (that is, you could read them after work) were replaced by morning papers (that is, you could take them to work and read during your lunch break) in the 1980s and 1990s, but the morning papers' news was the same thing people saw on TV news at 23:00 the night before. So their news wasn't "new" by the time it reached its readers.

That revenue decline sparked sharp cutbacks which seem to have preceded the widespread availability of online news sources.

A few family members worked for newspapers. By the end, fact-checking at their papers consisted mostly of checking Wikipedia.

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