> It is, by and large, crap and incomparable to the kind of journalism that dedicated professionals used to provide before cable TV ratings and algorithms destroyed the incentives.

Print media consolidation and cost-cutting did that before cable news rose to prominence (people were complaining about it at least as far back as the 1980s), much less online media and its algorithms (which, anyway, optimize for exactly the same thing ad-supported media has always optimized for.)