Appetite, rather than wisdom, drives the news. Wisdom and knowledge used to occupy the top of our mental pyramid. Now information and data are at the top. The former is subjective, but refined and studied; the latter is objective but raw and not always attached to meaning. The delivery system has become more important than the content itself.
— Hugo Kugiya, in a thoughtful piece for Crosscut on the changing media landscape, and the drawbacks of instant publishing