Well, I was only intending to make an observation, since this narrative progress fairly jumped out at me. If I were to argue a point, I think I'd go with "there's no way to win by playing their game." "News" as we think of it is now a business, not a service, and that has a lot of repercussions.

But since I don't really want to be a pundit telling people what they would do if they were only smarter, or discussing what exactly is wrong with the media today, I'll stop there.