I'd have to agree. It doesn't matter WSJ, NYT, WaPo, LAT, Trib, all garbage. When I started to see grammar mistakes and typos in the NYT, I knew it was over. They were optimizing for clicks not correctness. The infotainment that started on TV and the destruction of revenue by aggregation has created an environment where largescale news as it was is not profitable (enough), but clickbait is. There may be individual journalists who care, but not a single senior editor that does. We have achieved post truth media. The news cycle is literally about UFOs.

edit: I will say that's a profit opportunity both for those who can spread fake meme news and for those who can bother to see through it, but for the vast middle it is idocracy.