Haha what? It’s the literal opposite mate. We’ve had an explosion of independent and non-capital aligned media. No matter what your brand of crazy is, you can find the “thought leaders” and community for you.

There's another comment along these lines too. I think my "news and opinion" phrase sounded like I exclusively meant mainstream news. But I was thinking more generally abouts "news and opinion content" like Breitbart, X comments, facebook rants, etc.

Yeah the explosion of the internet has allowed some conspiracy schizo person in the US to connect with another schizo conspriacy person across the world in Moldova to quickly find each other online and then confirm each others schizo beliefs.

Believe in flat Earth? Are you a holocaust denier? Think the moon landing is fake? Is the government gang stalking you? Welp you are in luck, there's thousands of other people just like you and here is a forum.

Kinda wild when you think about it.