@wjmaggos
Efficient markets? Science? Democracy? Let's not be naïve.
We live in an age of unprecedented regulation and market manipulation, radical medical mandates and dubious pharma "science" and the biology of transgenderism, and unrestrained government corruption and law enforcement overreach.
Caring about being informed and caring for one's own is an objective good. Thinking we can make the "media environment" into something "good" is a quixotic goal.