Makes you wish there was a accountability on journalism side for what writers produce. Imagine a information overlay that filters out authors who wrote many propaganda pieces and fear mongerism.
When the Internet decimated newspapers, owners realized they could could lay off all the editors (QA) without any short term financial downside. So they did. Church and State is now a relic, except to some degree at a few bastions of old-school journalism like NYTimes.
A high quality newsroom is an expensive thing. Internet ad revenues alone generally do not support them.