> The BBC
Have you visited the BBC News website recently?
They even have Daily Mail style headlines now, where a random word is capitalised for emphasis:
"Up to NINE terrible things happened"
I browse with an ad blocker, so those are actual headlines, not Outbrain/Taboola (ugh) links.
They still do a lot of 'hard news' stuff (along with the vast majority of their output which is straight 'normal news'). For example, just this week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/g4s_brook_house_i...
No excuse. That crap is paid for with my taxes. They don't need to lower themselves to that standard.
That shit permeates, you know? The news side will look like that eventually.
I'd have thought taxes + license fee would be enough to avoid the race to the bottom, but here we are.
Try to steer their decisions with your voice.
And it seems to be far from unique to the BBC, you can notice it with all the national broadcasters (Though BBC being English and thus have a worldwide reach in its original form, is more noticeable outside of the UK).
I have an Model 14 Teletype tape printer from 1926 in a brass and glass case hooked up to the Reuters RSS feed. I've had this at steampunk conventions, and it usually lives in my living room. Push a button and get the news.[1] Or leave it on, and it starts up whenever Reuters posts something new. Technical details.[2]
[1] https://archive.org/details/Aethericmachine14 [2] http://www.aetherltd.com