of these Services--as we speak--is such a drag on catalyzing actual thought that: even the more articulate, educated Reporters
(were there more of these) would still ..have a tough row to hoe.
Now throw in the bias of the Owners-of-the-presses, their Oil-portfolios for just one ... and what do we get?
Wish I could find the long-ago Frank & Ernest comic (that grungy pair of master quippers) wherein:

A big pot is simmering on the rickety stove.
Big sign over pot: Do Not Stir the Soup
Customer asks ~ Why not?
Ans: Because, Sir.. you would not like what you would see.

And that's how we got custom what-would-you-Like-us-to-say? Newsfotainment, innit?
(And That's why ..there remains so little Hope.)

And.. ^THAT-all^ is why those scaffolds must-be-Built: for service in 2019; 'sabout TIME that
..there comes some Good-real-News ..lest both the auto-seppuku-rate and the Meth-usage hit "ex dx dx"
[Thence --> playing the hymn Sleepers Awake! shall fall upon dumber/deafer ears and ..well, we Know.]