I agree wholeheartedly. This is put so succinctly.

And I agree with your analysis of how profit-driven content creation creates a sort of race to the bottom for quality.

At the same time, I wrote two recent articles and tagged them with "climate change" and was swiftly named a top writer by medium for that topic.

WTH?? I thought it must be a mistake; I barely had a hundred claps for either article. But it wasn't.

It would seem that the topic is so underreported (similarly to mainstream media) there's not a lot of competition.

So in this respect, just writing about it and bringing awareness seems like a good thing. If more astute commenters point out misrepresented facts or errors, that's good, too.

Let's just keep the discussion going.

Thanks for your article!