And yes, I do believe media orgs bear *some* responsibility for and culpability in this crisis (for it is a crisis).
A decade-long unabashed and often uncritical promotion of centralized services helped to entrench these services as online spaces for public debate. Now we're all paying the price.
@rysiek very much agree with this 馃憜 started saying long ago that it would become a problem, the way legacy media prostrated themselves at the feet of social media, gifting them unfettered gatekeeper status - no, I do not enjoy being right, and it wasn't particularly insightful of me; part of the problem is that it was obvious from day one, and yet they did it anyway...