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Totally unrelated rant follows.

I wonder how a world without main stream media would look like... Would it be a better place? So much negativity, hidden agenda, pay for play, etc. is present, that one would probably be better off staying uninformed, than reading articles with God knows what agenda.

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I'm struggling to understand how a world without professional journalists (because that's what "mainstream media" means) would be better.

Given the choice of getting my reporting from either pseudonymous posters writing on random blogs, or professional journalists who write under their own name, abide by an ethics code, and are supported by a publishing organization that includes editors and fact checkers -- well, I'll rather pay for the latter in any world.

I surmise that the OP implies that in his hypothetical, ethics codes hold no merit

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