
What happened to quality journalism? The truth will shock you.
You want to see quality journalism returned to the world? Make a conscious decision to stop clicking on any headline that ends with some variation of "and then something amazing happened"* or "the truth will shock you"*. These are invariably links to user-generated content that requires no journalism whatsoever to locate, just the ability to click and scroll through endless Youtube videos, Vimeos and social media posts. Any schoolkid could do that. (*Spoiler alert: it's not a