[mediumdave]

I agree with the article that there is a lot of low-quality "journalism" out there, designed to outrage or entertain rather than inform.

However, that does not mean that all journalism should be disregarded. I read the Washington Post and listen to NPR (regardless of how you feel about their cultural programming, their news organization is excellent.) Citizens in a free society have a duty to be informed about the issues facing that society. I reject the idea that there aren't readily available high quality sources of information about the world. Are any of them perfect? Clearly, no. But ignoring them because they're not perfect strikes me as nihilistic.

There's one quote from the article that alarmed me:

> The news is overwhelmingly about things you cannot possibly influence

In democracies, we do have elections...