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Same. They got new editorship a year or two back that questioned the conventional wisdom that teenage girls are only interested in shallow things and adjusted the content accordingly, which seems to be working quite well for them.

Actual journalism often means pissing off wealthy or powerful people.

This suggests that the more powerful and wealthy a journalistic outlet gets, the less interested it is in actual journalism.

It's a sad commentary on the state of things when Comedy Central, HBO, and Teen Vogue are host to some of the more well researched and thoughtful news reports.

Nature abhors a vacuum.