I disagree. You act as if there isn't a media class, which forms a consensus opinion, whose articles feed on each other, which has its detractors and outliers but remains a largely homogeneous organ of information. The term "Fourth Estate" dates to 1787 and if it was all that disorganized there wouldn't be entire categories of professions related to managing and interacting with it. The Media is a thing. All rivers flow downhill. All mountains rise above the plains. The Russians largely read Cyrillic. Certainly there are outliers and certainly there is dissent, but by definition dissent is that which disagrees with the consensus opinion. Yes, "the work is out there for those who seek it." But for those who don't seek it, the narrative is oversimplified. The author in question, by the way, is worth listening to.