I mean most of this pearl clutching is just consumption expressing itself. The idea that the modern person must be informed was coincidentally born around the time of mass communication which is just selling TVs and radios and newspapers. You're a stupid and/or immoral person if you don't consume. You're irresponsible! Now we're in such a media-saturated environment it's hard to get eyeballs in the right places. Social media places the NYT next to Infowars. So the strategy is make a big deal over misinformation. You're bad if you watch the other guy's shitty cable news program instead of ours. Theirs is misinformation, ours is trusted. But they're both companies and therefore not beholden to any truth whatsoever. In fact they both clearly and openly function as state media, when their guy is in charge. They clearly have agendas. Nothing about it is not misinformation. In fact, it's not a coincidence this kind of piece is in the NYT of all places. Just the paper of record lamenting about how nobody listens to them because misinformation.