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CMV: News media should be more elitist.

We don’t let doctors without a degree practice medicine.

Why don’t we require every journalist to have a university degree in journalism?

The Internet has unlocked large viewership for the common folk. You no longer need capital to buy a printing press, or a TV station.

Now, it requires a $10 webcam, which means you can make journalistic content at a zero budget. That includes a zero budget for the investigative reporters. The staff can be $0.

What has this led to? Excesses like Alex Jones.

In 1970, there would not be a single TV host who had the liberty of making up any crazy story they wanted, and present it while mentally completely gone.

It is popular to denounce elitism, but current society needs an educated, balanced elite and cannot leave information dissemination to the mentally deranged.

Every Tom, Dick and Harry with a million viewer platform is **not** a good thing.

**UPDATE:** Thank you to all respondents. Consider my **view changed.** Instead of controlling news sources, it is better to focus on the audience, and try to promote critical thinking skills.
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>In 1970, there would not be a single TV host who had the liberty of making up any crazy story they wanted, and present it while mentally completely gone.

In 1970, people weren't sharing stories (on the national scale) about how the FBI was infiltrating unions or left-leaning organizations.

The ability for ordinary citizens to report and share stories (like that) with people beyond their immediate community, is a massive improvement in cultivating social awareness of authoritarianism and government overreach.