This blog post from A plain blog about politics was informative and also hilarious.
Their argument is summed up with this: if you have a partisan press which makes most of its money off of chumps who are eager to believe the wildest things out there, then you have very little incentive to try for anything better.
I agree. Do we really expect the large, partisan news sites to change what they're doing, if they're making millions? I sure don't. But I also don't want this sort of news reporting to spill over into how politics work in the US, which this blog post argues it has.
The post goes on to criticize a couple of Republican candidates, but I think the way he frames it is a big unfair. Since it is a liberal blog (this blogger is at least obviously left), that's to be expected. However, I think the point they raise about the quality of the news is valid: it's harder to have better quality stories and critiques of politics. If McDonald's is making millions, where is there an incentive to make everything healthier?
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