I agree with that.

Many years ago, I had a paper subscription to both The Age and The Australian; and both were respectable publications at the time... Whereas now neither of them are. There is still good journalism happening, but it is no longer the norm. And so it isn't as easy to consume it as a routine, or talk about it casually to people in slightly different social circles.

I feel like almost every story is like "here is what some people with obviously vested interests say about such-and-such". Or the other flavour of story which is basically "shit's fucked. It sucks, right?" For politics in particular, I see so many stories about whether some policy is popular, and again opinions from vested interests... but very little objective comparison. Like, people aren't proposing policy changes because they are complete idiots. They have reasons. So I'd like the reporting on them to say what those reasons are, and look into whether or not the policy will meet the goals of those reasons.

Ok. I feel like I'm whinging and being a bit vague. Like I said before, there is still some good journalism going on - and I don't really put a lot of effort into looking for it. So I shouldn't complain too much about what I see. I guess I'm just bit a worried about what everyone else sees too. Rage-bait emotional manipulation, mostly.