re: The journalism industry is in free fall

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2. No one seems interested in having a truly reliable, non-tabloid style news service. I would like to see someone try it to see if it could succeed.

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I have not seen anyone try yet. Make me wonder about the stranglehold the large investment pools have over not wanting real news to be reported.

If one of the large networks went back to old school reporting, reporting factual events without opinions, then reported the factual response from both sides of issues without reporter opinions, it should be a ratings bonanza.

Investigative journalism disappeared for a reason and it was not because the public did not want it, it was because the powers that were targeted for exposure bought their way into the media network or secured board positions to change news media reporting.

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Hopefully, one day true journalism will return.

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I don't think this "true journalism" ever existed. It was an open secret that JFK slept around and nobody ever reported it. Just like the press never reported that FDR was wheelchair bound. Ford was the most athletic president in history and the media painted him as a klutz. The Tet Offensive was a major defeat for the VC, but not according to the New York Times. Speaking of the Times, its reporter won a Pulitzer Prize for suppressing the famine in the Ukraine that Stalin caused.
The press has always been in the tank, it just wasn't so obvious back then.

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Professional journalism is largely non-existent. It is almost all tabloid style or political propaganda.

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i think the pearl clutchers on both side of the aisle are to blame for this. the news companies are selling to their audience what they want and they absolutely eat it up. primetime news is depressing but what do you expect when your competing for clicks, views and outrage