Scrolling through Twitter just makes me depressed about the state of journalism - you see the collapse in norms of behaviour - the tossing aside of any pretence of impartiality by many though not all

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I mean of course journalists have personal opinions but in the past they would have made an effort to suppress them - that's now more and more at risk as opinion pushing has taken over from fact reporting

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Sadly this flows from a broken business model - the newspapers especially used to rely on paper sales and advertising - but the internet came along and blew that up - so instead they have all scurried into their audience corners

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But more importantly has been the blatant response to Trump and Brexit - which many in the media have taken as an attack on their worldview - instead of reporting the facts many have taken it upon themselves to become political activists

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You see this most obviously with the liberal papers like the Guardian, FT, Economist etc which have tossed any pretence of impartiality aside - it's actually both embarrassing for them and shaming for the profession at large

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They couldn't cope with the public challenging their worldview and have since been on a slow but continuous negative attack on the projects and and voters - it's been very insidious and very unpleasant to watch and read

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Regardless this is serious as trust has collapsed - people don't even bother interacting with the media - why bother when you feel you'll just be insulted - we need to accept that we will need to pay but demand more - democracy can't function without shared facts

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