While it’s more likely they will get more basic facts wrong, and mix up opinion with reporting.

There’s a different type of error distribution.

The baseline issue is that media firms doing boring news are not marginally competitive, against a new cycle driven sensational news channel.

The noisy channel will get more viewers, more ad space and eventually buy out the other channel.

Part of the problem is unbridled efforts to apply psych and marketing research to win market share (a corporate necessity).

And the other part is also an Intellectual malaise in many viewers.

I think we just give it all up and start working for the men with the power. The situation seems unsolvable, and people are pretty much only investing in systems That propagate this phenomenon.

All news needs to become more boring and fact based - yesterday.

This arms race for attention will not stop. Market competition is a crap system when a common resource is allowed to be exploited - in this case, collective attention.