And since then things have grown worse

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From an article by GK Chesterton, about 1913 (Chesterton was a journalist all his life and knew the business inside out):

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[affablestranger]

Alas.

[rfachir]

Journalism was trapped under the internet and drowned in a sea of trivial nonsense. Now international economic crises are "below the fold" under Britany's latest scandal, Dancing With the Stars, and the L'Oreal feud. And the 'real journalists' are so rare that they can do the same things as Wikileaks and never be credited/blamed for what they publish. The world is spinning too fast and we all want to get off.