with respect to the media and "journalism" in general?
As you know, the U.S. media has evolved into a panoply of corporate owners with an agenda and have slowly reorganized (eliminating Editors) and have driven away some of the best writers - columnists, reporters, and opinion writers - ALL for "the bottom line". They don't give a shit about "the reader" as long as they get those clicks and views and subscriptions to show to their advertisers so they can charge them some "x" amount to advertise on the site, and promise them that the "readers/viewers" are there.
There are a few "big indies" out here like The Guardian (who I recently did a full sub with) or Mother Jones (who I have subbed to for awhile now), but the rest have been bought up by conglomerates or billionaires (with majority stake).
I know one of the biggest complaints on DU has been about the "clickbait headlines" (and that includes all the various political videos that are posted). It's the world that we live in now. 
But then somehow, since they have pretty much taken over a significant portion of the "information transmittal" (outside of the broadcast media, which is even worse), we have to sift through it to "get the main idea" and then move on.
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