Problems that people have with journalism are always misplaced IMO. It's easy to scapegoat "the media" as an entity, but insofar as it exists, the media and what it publishes is downstream of what individuals in society want to see and hear. Quite to the contrary, most journalists I've met and talked to (largely in print media) have journalistic standards and generally want to do the right thing by their readers. But in a sense, media companies are held captive by their readers.
It seems like many people believe that if somehow big corporate media (let's say Fox, CNN, NBC), swapped into a mode of "more facts, less editorialization" then it would have positive downstream effects on society. (Let's set aside that facts and data are completely meaningless without context, and context is political.) I'm not sure that's actually the case. I think it would have largely no effect. People in our society want the Rachel Maddow's and the Tucker Carlson's, the Joe Rogan's and the Russell Brand's. Until society shifts out of that mode, our media will continue to look this way.
It seems like many people believe that if somehow big corporate media (let's say Fox, CNN, NBC), swapped into a mode of "more facts, less editorialization" then it would have positive downstream effects on society. (Let's set aside that facts and data are completely meaningless without context, and context is political.) I'm not sure that's actually the case. I think it would have largely no effect. People in our society want the Rachel Maddow's and the Tucker Carlson's, the Joe Rogan's and the Russell Brand's. Until society shifts out of that mode, our media will continue to look this way.