Notice how the link starts with "Opinion". This is what newspapers used to do to separate out their actual news stories from their garbage opinion pieces. It helped protect them from libel suits. That's why journalism standards are important.
Once the internet hit, and every Russian or Chinese bot could write, post and have Google promote their poorly written articles to drive traffic for ad revenue, all bets were off. Major news outlets started following the business model, figuring the internet made them libel proof, I guess, so all standards were jettisoned.
The CCP took notice, and made deals with Google in order to allow them to operate in China, and allow the CCP to shape western thought through manipulated search results. That's how we got to where we are today. It seems as though, now that people realize they can sue for libel, standards are maybe starting to creep back in.
Dude, you literally can’t trust anything you read.
There is no such thing as journalistic standards in 2021 USA.
I went to school for journalism. Wrote at my college newspaper, interned at a local newspaper. This was in the mid 2000’s, right as the internet was taking over the industry.
I learned all the important stuff. Journalistic integrity. Not using a source until you have confirmed it’s legitimacy. Not getting sued for libel. Not EVER, under any circumstances, asserting YOUR opinion in any way shape or form....unless the article is specifically marked as a column, or opinion piece.
So there used to be this natural divide, between news articles, and opinion pieces.
As FoxNews and CNN blew up TV ratings, there came a forceful shift in journalistic output. Opinion pieces SELL. Passion SELLS.
Throw in some cultural turmoil; 9/11, Iraq 2, the recession, etc
And all hell broke loose. We’ve lost complete control.
Journalism is dying a slow, painful death, and there’s no reversing the disease. We are a sensationalist country in sensationalist times.